Tour through the make laboratory: In our measuring device overview, we present useful to indispensable measuring and testing devices for the maker workstation.

Measuring instruments for makers: oscilloscopes and more for home use Multimeter Oscilloscope Logic analyzer Function generator Agilent 34401 A Philips PM 6654 C HP 8643 A Article in Make Magazine 6 / 2020 read At the latest when the inclined electronics hobbyist has reached the “painting by numbers” stage (i.e. plugging together prefabricated Has left assemblies according to the instructions) and would like to devote himself to his own creations, the question arises of the required measuring instruments – and of course the financial resources to be raised. Thanks to a wide range of offers, the hobby no longer drives a maker to ruin, even if it is sometimes worth investing a little more money by less than 100 Euro throw back without having to forego relevant functions. However, if you plan in the long term, you will probably only find important performance features in more expensive devices. “Who buys cheap, buys twice” postulated the grandmother, and numerous bankruptcies in the case of hastily bought bargains substantiate this thesis: A measuring device has to function properly in every situation, otherwise it does not live up to its name. On a good instrument you should at least 20 Have years of pleasure, because it is not made to the standards of consumer electronics, it will be a (too) cheap one with wobbly buttons and unreliable switches or annoying a hair-raising operability every day.

This applies in particular to oscilloscopes, which no maker can avoid in the medium term: you can quickly check pulse sequences or alternating voltages with higher frequencies do, and the multimeter just doesn’t help. Once purchased, you will never want to do without it again – and that is why it is probably the least worthwhile to save at the wrong end.

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