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expiredDVDxR posted Oct 3, 2022 11:09 AM
Siglent SDS1104X-E 100Mhz 4-Channel Digital Oscilloscope
$399
$499
20% off
+ Free Shippingat Amazon
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Siglent is definitely a value-for-money option. I'd noticed a few years back where Keysight had started creating some nice offers in the education space for entry-level oscilloscopes, but they simply don't have to try as hard as their competitors. So many modern oscilloscopes from even basic brands (also see Rigol) are simply incredible devices well beyond the needs of an average hobbyist. Everyone sets their own needs/budget and honestly for me I've never beat the value and need for much beyond my old Analog Discovery 2 that I grabbed at a sub-$200 education discount way back when...
Good luck!
Jon
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If you're going to buy new, I would not recommend buying a lower quality/cheaper scope. If you're looking for something extremely basic, you can find some junk oscilloscopes on eBay or Alibaba.
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...illo
Just don't expect them to be accurate or durable.
Already curious, not something of day to day use....what you peep's are up to? Hobbyist?
At the normal 499 MSRP you can get them cheaper through Siglent as they, unlike Amazon, do not charge shipping.
If this is a price break offered by the manufacturer, meaning it's not exclusive to Amazon, then I bet you save a couple bucks contacting Siglent directly.
Sorry for not researching the current state of affairs, but the scope is worth the usual 499 retail + Amazon charging for shipping. It's that good for a lower speed scope. If you are squeezing those pennies extra hard - figure it out and get the SD positive feedback for it.
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(Not to threadcrap, just surprised to see scope on SD
Since this will draw experts, could someone educate me a bit? I'm getting into tube amp repair/building (mostly repair/restoration currently), and see all the pro guys have an oscilloscope on their benches. I know one use case is to see the "signal" of the amp, in the context of tube biasing, to kinda know when the sine wave is "right". I don't have a background in electronics or circuits or anything, so I'm quite naive. What other use cases are there for something like this? What differentiates a $500-$1k scope whit a cheapo $20 USB type thing? What are different "channels" used for?
as an EE engineer, I would have not expected this on slickdeals
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Since this will draw experts, could someone educate me a bit? I'm getting into tube amp repair/building (mostly repair/restoration currently), and see all the pro guys have an oscilloscope on their benches. I know one use case is to see the "signal" of the amp, in the context of tube biasing, to kinda know when the sine wave is "right". I don't have a background in electronics or circuits or anything, so I'm quite naive. What other use cases are there for something like this? What differentiates a $500-$1k scope whit a cheapo $20 USB type thing? What are different "channels" used for?
What it shows is what the electronics is doing at a particular location in the circuit. If you have multiple channels you can look at multiple areas at the same time which can make troubleshooting easier. A good example might be having an intermittment problem and you suspect its a capacitor, you could probe the capacitor and the problem area and see if the errant signal in the target area only happens when the capacitor is discharged etc. Or say that after a particular branch goes from low to high, you're supposed to see that reflected in a different place 100ms later... hard to do that if you don't have multiple channels. You could see that it changed, but you might not be able to see how long after it was triggered did it chance... or if its a pulse you might miss it completely if its not being monitored.
other than the # of channels is the sample/display rate, the voltages/current/time period it can handle.
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