I have just had the delivery man arrive...Hermes.... already striking fear and hatred in some peoples minds, especially bd's
and I must admit I was a bit apprehensive when the eBay seller said he would send the mini GW GOS-310 scope to me via them.
The seller also stated that he would pack it really well...yeh, we have all been there before right? On this occasion however, the seller kept his word, I signed for a rather large black package. The entire package was wrapped in black plastic bin liners and then sellotaped all round again, so for a day like today where its raining cats and bleeding dogs, it was well water proofed. Cutting this outer layer off, revealed a very sturdy banana box which was made from Tri-wall cardboard, very strong stuff. Removing the top lid section revealed another black bin liner full of chopped pieces of foam and no spare space, it was rammed with this stuff, took that out and there sitting on another bag of foam was a small scope wrapped in 4 wraps of bubble wrap, it was then, well protected.
The scope, once librated of its bubble wrapping looked like it had just been out from the manufacturers original packing, it was mint apart from a very faint scratching on one if its sides and only visible under the right conditions.
Normally I'd open it first as you never really what the true state is under cover, it might have had a gorilla in there before me, but I took a chance and powered the sucker right up and it works, just as advertised, Plugged into my function generator and tried it out and it is limited in what it can do but it does do what it claims to in the sales blurb.
I had brought this because it looked to be in good condition in the photos and it is, its was claimed to be working, and it is, but seller did not know what it was or how to work it, or anything about it. Googled for answers, it's a 10MHz single trace CRT scope.
Now I have a dilemma, I had not expected it to be so small, it has a smaller footprint than my Tek TDS210, so I was thinking of flipping it again on eBay but I may just end up keeping it, its ideal for my audio work, although, it does have the same annoying traits as all analogue scopes have, its basically crap at really low frequencies.
Anyway, here's a couple of shots of it in use, I'll open her up later and take some internal photos for those that like their fun to be down and out dirty with naked electronics