Time will tell if I did something impulsive *and* stupid. :-)
Having just gotten paid, I decided it was time to finally get a better
handheld scope to replace an ancient Velleman HPS5. The HPS5
samples at a whopping 500Khz, so it's only useful for the most basic
of things.
So I went out and ordered a Hantek DSO-1060, a 150Ms/sec
scope with a 60Mhz bandwidth. The folks over at RCgroups said
nice things about thefamousbrandsoutlet.com, so in spite of the
name, I ordered from them. Excellent communication on their part,
and the scope arrived last night, just as they said it would.
http://www.hantek.com/english/produce_list.asp?unid=79I haven't had time to do much other than calibrate a scope probe
and so some basic tests of the multimeter. Using the calibration signal,
the trace looks a little noisy, but I'm not sure if that the calibration signal
itself, the scope, or if this is what to expect with an 8-bit ADC. Certainly
it's head and shoulders above the old Velleman unit.
Some reports of a related model, the DSO-8060 have said that it becomes
more voltage inaccurate with signals above 10Mhz.
Lots of testing ahead of me.
Scott