The 5000 series scopes are simple and inexpensive and are very
useful. The low speed ones include normal, single and dual beam
storage, all with large screens. There is a good selection of
plugins, aimed towards lab work. In particular single and dual
channel differential amps.
My kids used a 5000 with a differential amp to make an ECG for a
school project.
A 5S14N plugin turns a 5000 storage scope into a 1GHz sampler.
The 5440 sells today for peanuts but is a useful general purpose
50MHz scope with readout and again has a big screen. If my 5440 is
up to the job I would always use it instead of a 7000 because it is
lighter and more compact to carry around and has a bigger screen.
There is at least one 5000 plugin which is a shell in which to build
your own device.
--- In TekScopes@y..., "Lynn Lewis" <mrzuzu@j...> wrote:
I never owned anything made by Tektronix in my life until December.
Now I
have
6 scopes and a bushel of plugins. I have two questions, the answers
to which
are probably obvious to you guys but not to me.
1. Why are people paying from $120 to over $200 for TM503's and
TM504's but
are paying less than $100 for TM506's (of which I got one for
$75+S&H)?
2. Will the modules that go into a TM5-whatever also work in a
5000 Series
oscilloscope? If not, then why is the 5000 series so popular? I
can't
figure
any other reason anyone would want a 2MHz or 5MHz scope.
