Well, there's more to it than that. 
I got one of these for Christmas. It's a very cool 4-channel 50MHz 'scope that I hacked up to 100MHz. It's cool as hell and I've been having a ball learning about all it's doo-dads. I appreciate a tool with good doo-dads.
Which led me to get one of these (an arbitrary waveform generator). These are good for generating arbitrary waveforms. You know, because well-defined sine waves are just so boring. This is total and complete overkill for my needs (ham radio and guitar amps, mostly), but it's just so freaking beautiful that I had to have it. Plus it was on sale or something, but it's on back order.
Which led to one of these cheap on eBay because the nice one above is on backorder and I hate to wait. This one is a simpler sweeping function generator which is good for sweeping my generated functions.
And then one of the ones on the bottom because an analog scope is better for some stuff like impressing the babes. Babes love analog signal traces, and that's a fact.
And then finally one of these which is a bench-top multimeter that I really don't need because I have a nice fluke handheld, but that once can stay in my travel bag if I have one on the desk. It too, was too pretty not to buy, but there are some reviews of it being slow (supposedly fixed in firmware) so we'll see if it's a keeper.
Well, not really "finally" since I'm working on a deal for one of these, which is an isolation transformer with Variac for units under test to help me from destroying my scopes or killing myself. Probably.
The new white plastic stuff is all from China, and the things they're doing these days are mind-blowing. The first scope (the Rigol) was I think $400, and it's got features that would have cost $5000 back in the '90s. Wild. Meanwhile that old Tektroniks scope was $100 on eBay and sold for well over $2500 new. The Vector Vid was also about $100 and from the size of the outlets, I'm thinking it's going to be huge and heavy, but they just don't make stuff like that anymore, especially with a 10A capacity.
I'm completely rebuilding my home office and I'm tired of working on electronics on my computer desk so I'm building a real lab bench where I can fulfill my Rick and Morty destiny.
BTW if you haven't seen Rick and Morty, I highly recommend it. It's so un-PC that it's not even funny, which as it turns out is really funny. It can be pretty crude, so if that's not your thing you've been warned. Lauren thinks it's the dumbest thing ever, and I can appreciate that.
This is a scene from the show:
I was watching it with my kids and paused it at this scene and asked them as it struck me, "Is that how you see me?"
I pretty much got a resounding "yes". Well, except for the sociopathic tendencies and drinking problem. Mostly.
GAD
I got one of these for Christmas. It's a very cool 4-channel 50MHz 'scope that I hacked up to 100MHz. It's cool as hell and I've been having a ball learning about all it's doo-dads. I appreciate a tool with good doo-dads.
Which led me to get one of these (an arbitrary waveform generator). These are good for generating arbitrary waveforms. You know, because well-defined sine waves are just so boring. This is total and complete overkill for my needs (ham radio and guitar amps, mostly), but it's just so freaking beautiful that I had to have it. Plus it was on sale or something, but it's on back order.
Which led to one of these cheap on eBay because the nice one above is on backorder and I hate to wait. This one is a simpler sweeping function generator which is good for sweeping my generated functions.
And then one of the ones on the bottom because an analog scope is better for some stuff like impressing the babes. Babes love analog signal traces, and that's a fact.
And then finally one of these which is a bench-top multimeter that I really don't need because I have a nice fluke handheld, but that once can stay in my travel bag if I have one on the desk. It too, was too pretty not to buy, but there are some reviews of it being slow (supposedly fixed in firmware) so we'll see if it's a keeper.
Well, not really "finally" since I'm working on a deal for one of these, which is an isolation transformer with Variac for units under test to help me from destroying my scopes or killing myself. Probably.
The new white plastic stuff is all from China, and the things they're doing these days are mind-blowing. The first scope (the Rigol) was I think $400, and it's got features that would have cost $5000 back in the '90s. Wild. Meanwhile that old Tektroniks scope was $100 on eBay and sold for well over $2500 new. The Vector Vid was also about $100 and from the size of the outlets, I'm thinking it's going to be huge and heavy, but they just don't make stuff like that anymore, especially with a 10A capacity.
I'm completely rebuilding my home office and I'm tired of working on electronics on my computer desk so I'm building a real lab bench where I can fulfill my Rick and Morty destiny.
BTW if you haven't seen Rick and Morty, I highly recommend it. It's so un-PC that it's not even funny, which as it turns out is really funny. It can be pretty crude, so if that's not your thing you've been warned. Lauren thinks it's the dumbest thing ever, and I can appreciate that.
This is a scene from the show:
I was watching it with my kids and paused it at this scene and asked them as it struck me, "Is that how you see me?"
I pretty much got a resounding "yes". Well, except for the sociopathic tendencies and drinking problem. Mostly.
GAD
