Mike Poulton Wrote:
> I've been keeping an eye on ebay for a few weeks now. There really aren't
> that many scopes on there, and they often tend to go above my budget.

I get 654 hits for "oscilloscope" on ebay right now. You may end up in
the US $500 plus shipping (from here to UK) for a decent digital
storage scope, but that's a heck of a deal -- a tenth of the original
price. A decent analog scope (100MHz dual trace) can be had for under
US $400, and shipping to the UK should be under US $100. It's at the
upper end of your budget, but at least you'll have what you need.
Paying #200 for a scope that frustrates you and limits your work is a
waste of money. Paying #300 for a DSO that opens a whole new world of
possibilities to you is a great deal.

> Has anyone got any comments on the gameboy scope? I have 3 gameboys at home,
> so I could potentially put one to good use.

I'm not familiar with the project specifically, but I can guarantee
that it would not be close to fast enough for what you want to do. The
gameboy processor doesn't have a clock speed anywhere near that
required -- you need somewhere around 500M samples per second for a
decent digital scope. That said, you can never have too many scopes.
I'm sure it would be quite useful for low-speed stuff, and having
three of them around would probably be pretty handy.




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Mike Poulton
MTP Technologies
mpoulton@mtptech.com
KC0LLX (70cm AM ATV, 33cm/12cm FM ATV, Omaha, NE)

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