How Does a CRT Oscilloscope Compare in Terms of Setup and Portability?

[brewnog]

Anyone got any experience?

Don't need anything with the accuracy of a CRT oscilloscope but ease of setup, repeatability, portability and convenience are more important.

 

[berkeman]

Do you mean like a portable battery-powered oscilloscope?

 

[brewnog]

Just a basic one wot you can plug into PC. Only need one channel.

 

[light_bulb]

i've been drooling over one of those for a while now, i wouldn't waste money on a single channel one though. at least dual channel with logic analyizer > 10mhz.

 

[brewnog]

But are they any good?

 

[light_bulb]

i've played with the software and it looks good, i haven't used the hardware so i couldn't tell you how well it works, sample rate and bit width of the adc will determine the performance, check this out:

http://www.bitscope.net/store/?p=view&i=item+2

thats what i'd get, for the same price as one of the lower end picoscopes this is better in every way for the same price.