which o-scope should i get?

[muskyhunter567 10+ year member]

im not sure if this is the right section, but anyway, im getting into the car audio field, and an o-scope is a really good thing to have, so i have two questions,

hand held or benchtop?

which one? name? brand? what should i look for? help?

i like fluke and il spend whatever it costs to get a good meter that i can use for the rest of my life and work like a champ

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[muskyhunter567 10+ year member]

anybody? i allways hear about how nice they are to use and how everybody uses them, come on

 

[fasfocus00 5,000+ posts]

i've got a kenwood, old but nice unit

 

[FarrisAudio 10+ year member]

fluke is good. my dad has had his for a while now, no problems

 

[gunz4me 10+ year member]

I have a Sencore SC61 on loan from a friend who shut down his electrical shop... It is an old CRT tube but I find the CRT much easier to read than the handheld LCDs. The only down side is it is huge. I think my Honda 2000 watt generator is smaller than that bad boy!

I wouldn't mind having a handheld to work inside of a car... but for working on electronics.... The benchtop rules!

 

[alvitae 10+ year member]

http://www.mobilesolutions-usa.com/smartparts/handheld.htm

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

I loved my velleman.

 

[muskyhunter567 10+ year member]

http://www.mobilesolutions-usa.com/smartparts/handheld.htm

ahhhahaha thats what im talking about!!! if i were to get a fluke, which one would be a good one to shoot for, model #? or what not

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Velleman-HPS10-PERSONAL-SCOPE-10MS-s_W0QQitemZ260364561086QQcmdZViewItemQQptZBI_Oscilloscopes?hash=item260364561086&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50#ShippingPayment

 

[Trey803 5,000+ posts]

this is the one CA tool I really wish I owned.......my high school physics class had an awesome one but I looked it up on ebay and it was about 2 g's used

 

[muskyhunter567 10+ year member]

im thinking about getting the velleman from parts express, what kind of test tones do you guys use with those? i get so confused on what db and what hz to use, and are they easy to see clipping? do you just look for the tops of the waves to start squaring off?

 

[aphinney 10+ year member]

some people just do 60 hz...but myself i use to freq of the vehicle

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://www.crutchfield.com/p_503CD104/Autosound-2000-Disc-Four.html?tp=556

 

[muskyhunter567 10+ year member]

il check into that cd and how is the o-scope on the termlab? anybody know about that?