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Old 19th Jan 2022, 8:37 am   #38
cmjones01
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Default Re: Oscilloscope List, December 2021!

Dare I list them? In my defence, almost all of mine do get used to earn a living from time to time, and I work in two countries so I need twice as many. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.

In the UK:
Tek 2465 300MHz analogue - still the instrument I reach for when debugging
Tek 7104 1GHz + plugins - a miracle of physics and will outperform all but the most expensive digital scopes
Soviet C1.91 (inspired by Tek 7000 series) and basic plugins, because why not

In Poland:
Tek 2465: same reason as above
Tek 2430A: 150Ms/s digital scope which, though old, I still enjoy using, and has some neat features (glitch capture) which modern ones don't have
Tek 7904A 500MHz + a shelf full of plugins: incredibly versatile and still in regular use.
Tek 535A + interesting plugins (1A1, 1A4, 1A5, 1A7, 1S1, 1S2, 1L40, O) my first "real" scope, still amazingly capable, got used a lot for working from home last year
Tek CSA803A: for anything measured in picoseconds, plus the wonderful SD24 head for time domain reflectometry. Irreplaceable.
HP 16702B + 16534A cards: decent digital scope if rather clunky to use. Enormous touch screen.
Soviet C1.122 (inspired by Tek 7000 series) with many of the plugins including sampling, multimeter and curve tracer. Still trying to collect the set but they're *really* hard to find.

Looking at the list, I think the only ones I have "just for fun" are the Soviet ones. I realise, happily, that they all basically work, though the C1.91 could do with a lot of new electrolytics and probably a couple of 04KN009 hybrid modules.

Chris
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