----- Original Message ----- From: "Mitch Miller" > I've never used an analog scope (well, not technically true, but not for > anything practical!), but do have a TDS-210. I absolutely love it! As a > hobbyist, I found it difficult to determine whether a resonator was > resonating, and if my project was not working because of a logic bug, or > because the micro had no clock! As I moved into IIC communications, and > serial comms., the scope became complete indispensable ... it's amazing > how you can (with the right sweep rate) actually display and read the > digital data of an RS-232 connection running at 115,200 (or such). > I would like to add, I have a TDS 220, and I would sell body parts to rasie money to pay bills before parting with the scope. I design equipment for DMX 512 stage lighting. The serial RS 485 stream runs at 250Kbps, and I can get a good trigger and then move to any byte I wish to observe and watch the bits toggle. (the data stream has 513 bytes (one start byte and 512 data bytes)) I used to own a Kenwood cs 5165 IIRC triple channel 6 trace analogue scope (the third channel was useless as it was a fix amplitude) and I would have a hard job to keep it triggered while trying to watch a byte. Another partially satisfied tek customer (not satisfied as the supplied probes keep loosing tips, and the wave star software they give with the fft comms module is next to useless, the new version costs a bit to upgrade to :o() Regards, Kat. ____________________________________________________________________________ /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | K.A.Q. Electronics \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | Software and Electronic Engineering X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Perth Western Australia / \ | Ph +61 419 923 731 ____________________________________________________________________________ -- http://www.piclist.com hint: PICList Posts must start with ONE topic: [PIC]:,[SX]:,[AVR]: ->uP ONLY! [EE]:,[OT]: ->Other [BUY]:,[AD]: ->Ads