> Jon wrote...
>
> >...I've seen that I can get a new Kenwood CS1010 for #160, but
> it's bandwidth
> >is 10MHz and it's single trace. Am I going to want more
> bandwidth than that
> >for PIC related work?
>
> ANY scope is infinitely better than no scope at all.
>
> A 10 MHz, single-trace scope is pretty limited, sure; but I've
> found that most of the times when I've reached for my scope
> probe, what I was after was just to see "what the heck is going
> on" in a circuit- and for that, my old 20 MHz B&K is more than
> adequate.
>
> If 10 MHz/single trace is all you can find at an affordable
> price, grab it.

        I agree completely. I've got a 10MHz single trace hand held LCD scope (the
velleman one) and while it is pretty limited I've found it has almost always
sufficed. As Jon mentioned most of the time you need a scope is to "just see
what's going on". I've pulled out my 100Mhz dual trace with delay a few
times but I probably could have survived without it.

        Of course, PICs being mostly digital, a logic analyzer is definitely
something else one should consider. Even a scope with DSO capabilities can
become VERY useful, for things like debugging I2C problems. Personally I
built my own logic analyzer, and even though I haven't used it that many
times it has been a savior when I DID need it. TTYL

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