{"id":9020,"date":"2007-10-05T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/tektronix-tds1002b\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T15:36:10","slug":"tektronix-tds1002b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/05\/tektronix-tds1002b\/","title":{"rendered":"Tektronix TDS1002B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m really tempted to pick up a new scope. I&#8217;ve got a <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Image_989_.jpg\">piece of crap Goldstar (I believe) analog scope<\/a> I picked up off of eBay for $70 shipped a few years back. While it&#8217;s okay for <a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/IMG_5066.jpg\">making pretty pictures<\/a> I&#8217;ve been having problems actually using it to test things. For example, when checking out the Alien DAC <em>(photo gallery retired)<\/em> I couldn&#8217;t really see the test patterns I was playing through it over the noise from the scope and probes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been looking at one of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tek.com\/site\/ps\/0,,3G-19558-SPECS_EN,00.html\">Tektronix TDS1002B<\/a> scopes. It is a 2-channel, 60MHz, 1GS\/sec scopes with monochrome LCD display (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tek.com\/site\/ps\/3G-19558\/images\/A000_6391-L.jpg\">image<\/a>). It&#8217;s also got USB ports with support for dumping images to mass storage devices or printing straight to PictBridge compatible printers. (Also, the first <em>good<\/em> use I&#8217;ve heard of for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cipa.jp\/english\/pictbridge\/\">PictBridge<\/a>&#8230; Normally I think of it as a digital camera feature which no one really uses.)<\/p>\n<p>The price for the TDS1002B from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tequipment.net\/TektronixTDS1002B.asp\">Tequipment.net<\/a> is $1009.80, and I&#8217;d probably need to pick up a probe or two as well. I&#8217;m still poking around Tek&#8217;s site to see if the scope does everything I want, in particular communication with PCs to make sharing of the data easier, but it looks like it will.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ll just need to budget for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m really tempted to pick up a new scope. I&#8217;ve got a piece of crap Goldstar (I believe) analog scope I picked up off of eBay for $70 shipped a few years back. While it&#8217;s okay for making pretty pictures I&#8217;ve been having problems actually using it to test things. For example, when checking\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acquired-things","category-electronics","category-moved-from-livejournal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12609,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9020\/revisions\/12609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}