Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!nntp.supernews.com!news.supernews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 02:39:08 +0000 From: John Larkin Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design,sci.electronics.repair Subject: Re: Favourite Test Equipment Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:37:27 -0700 Organization: Highland Tech Reply-To: xx@yy.com Message-ID: <97d11j55r5pbf4vk9rpatr6acu9sc0u53j@4ax.com> References: <9k7j0jlnbhs8qfg5m17pium0835meean83@4ax.com> <660ed343$0$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> <66105e8a$0$3711191$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 3.1/32.783 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 51 X-Trace: sv3-3wBUzMLv8jehcIjX5PtIB5/YC6ZOD1s2KrRVyMdGEzJqx2sUsu9x7LXCVzX1sBfRuOSn/V5vIjTafJN!FLl1XvFl2tgBjTlk2BXHodhXBvXSxCW1GfsU9jzlAUJ3710xrBFBx+DPI+IHRUl/pN7sJ1GCdTVK!O+8EDQ== X-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/abuse.html X-DMCA-Complaints-To: www.supernews.com/docs/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3333 On Sat, 6 Apr 2024 00:35:46 +0200, Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund wrote: >On 05-04-2024 23:22, john larkin wrote: >> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 16:26:49 -0400, bitrex wrote: >> >>> On 4/5/2024 3:49 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote: >>>> On a sunny day (Thu, 4 Apr 2024 12:20:19 -0400) it happened bitrex >>>> wrote in <660ed343$0$1258343$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com>: >>>> >>>>> My most useful old machine dollar for dollar is my 8012B pulse generator! >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Nice, real components... >>>> >>>> >>>>> $50 "not working." It was just a burned-out pilot lamp and dirty controls. >>>> >>>> mm 50 dollars, >>>> even today with people using dollars for wallpaper, >>>> buys you a nice pulse generator on ebay.. >>> >>> It cost $1700 USD in the 1987 catalog, about $4500 equivalent today! >>> >>>> 555 timer works fine too >>>> Or use sox in Linux for all sort of audio, including sweeps: >>>> https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/howto-sox-audio-tool-as-a-signal-generator.4242/ >>>> or just use a Raspberry Pi as signal generator: >>>> https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html#freq_pi >> >> Our DDG is about $4K, addmittedly over the top for a home lab. >> >> http://highlandtechnology.com/DSS/P500DS.shtml >> >> I love my beat-up old unit on my bench. Timing and levels are >> brutally quantitative. >> >I bought a Siglent DDS SDG6022X for 1300USD, 200MHz thingie. I knew >forehand that it could be hacked to 500MHz, so "saved" 3000 USD for 1 >hours work :-) > >https://www.batronix.com/shop/waveform-generator/Siglent-SDG6022X.html > >EEVBLOG has hacking details if anyone is interested... We bought a few Rigol 300 MHz 4-chan scopes and insisted that they throw in the 500 MHz upgrade. I remember when FFT was an extra-cost feature. Now it's free.