

If I come to work a morning and have forgotten to switch off the modern fanciful scope the day before, I hear the sound of the fan – and it’s already warm in the office. Or use the case to find my expectations.Īnother matter. But at what level do they compare? Remember I wasn’t only interested in the technical specs, but trying to match them with my assumed expectations. Yes, the first is 19 cm wide (and about 4 cm high), and the latter 6.5 cm wide (and about 2 cm high). I have decided to bet the two above against each other: PicoScope 3203D MSO from Pico Technology and the BitScope 10 from BitScope.

A table top instrument with screen and buttons would be “too much office” and too little to do with. Not an oscilloscope instrument (with screen and buttons and an always annoying fan, no matter how new and fancy it is!) I thought, but a USB (or. When I saw what I saw I decided that after 50 years I again need a scope at home. The scope at work is a Keysight Technologies (former Agilent, but Hewlett Packard or HP when Steve Jobs and I were young) model InfiniiVision 350 MHz scope that was bundled with an even larger scope (see ). The right is the analogue to digital (ADC) conversion on the XMOS startKIT that works so and so at the moment. The left screen-save is the I2C connection that remarkably enough works with my Adafruit display (even if I would like to add a pull-up). I brought the set-up in a card box to work. The external pictures used I have not asked for permission to use, but since they are used in a product discussion I reckon it’s okĪbove are a couple of oscilloscope pictures I measured on my private aquarium control XMOS project.There’s no “courtesy of” free HW and no money involved. Even if I discuss products here, I don’t have any deal with any manufacturer.Should there be any obvious errors or omissions, please comment below or mail me This note is not meant to be a neutral or objective review, but I do try to be accurate.I also have the service manual, in Norwegian. Fantastic! I have two 1959 Philips televisions sets in my loft: 17 TN 250A (17TN250A). Vintage Documentary – “The development and production of televison picture tubes”. Update 26Oct2021: have a look at this: MULLARD MADE FOR LIFE. Some stuff remain, like the 2AP1 CRT, and a picture of the scopes I built (which also has the circuit diagram with 3 tubes). They are since long gone now, but the cathode ray tube still casts a warm shadow on me: Because, when I was a youth I built one that worked, and one that never was finished. It’s got to do with more than just selecting an oscilloscope. Along the emotional path, this is a note in the A model to fulfill line of notes. Hand drawn diagram!-) So, why not also make the path a goal and take the opportunity to learn about USB based oscilloscopes (or, I have learned by investigating for this note: networked oscilloscope?) that have their client SW on a PC/ Mac/ Linux/etc.? Then find one to buy so that I also can recycle the scrapped scope and store the extra table away. And the old Philips GM 5650/02 from around 1955-60 that was ditched from work 20 years ago (after 20+ years of shelf life) was completely out of scope, as now being a conversation piece only (the handbook with circuit diagram is a gem in itself. The amplitude of channel 1 changed when I pushed the curve up. Updated 29Sept2017 Introįor a small private project I have tried the best of the scrapped scopes I brought home from work, but the 1997 model Fluke PM3380A didn’t pass its own diagnose procedure.
