Oscilloscope?

[Taylor1992]

What kind of oscilloscope should I get? Anyone know of where to get a deal on one besides ebay? Anyone willing to sell me one?

[Omnibus]

What kind of oscilloscope should I get? Anyone know of where to get a deal on one besides ebay? Anyone willing to sell me one?

That's a tricky one. You may wanna take a look at the thread I opened yesterday: http://www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=10177.msg268776#new

[Lakes]

Plenty of Scope tutorials on Youtube.

Here`s one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTG6jWL0ZqA

As for the best deal, if you don`t want to use Ebay, that depends on where you are located.

[Omnibus]

Plenty of Scope tutorials on Youtube.

Here`s one... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTG6jWL0ZqA

As for the best deal, if you don`t want to use Ebay, that depends on where you are located.

That's OK but for our purposes we do need better accuracy than the usual 8-bit scopes provide. Even the high-end 12-bit won't be enough. The 14-bit scopes are a rarity, it seems, and even that's not enough. Also, another very, very important point which these tutorials always miss to comment on -- the probes. I can't emphasize too strong how important the proper probes are and those proper probes are usually more expensive than the oscilloscope itself. So, for a, say, $3,000 dollar scope we're talking $10,000 for probes or something like that. The passive probes that come with the scope are crap, especially for the purposes of the studies we're discussing here. They can be used in the preliminary studies but for good, solid conclusions they should be avoided.

[Taylor1992]

Can someone point me to a good deal on one on ebay then?
I've been looking threw them and not enough information is given for someone who doesn't know much about them like me to make an educated purchase.