I posted earlier, but was rather vague. I have the opportunity to pick up
a Velleman PCS500 dual channel 50MHz PC Digital scope and their PC
Function Generator (0-1MHz) for $400. Has anyone had any experience with
these? I have PCs coming out of my ears and not a lot of bench space, so
I guess that is why I am attracted to these rather than the "real things".
I have read mostly good things about the Velleman stuff. Any other
insights would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Russ

"Russ W. Knize" wrote in message
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I posted earlier, but was rather vague. I have the opportunity to pick up
a Velleman PCS500 dual channel 50MHz PC Digital scope and their PC
Function Generator (0-1MHz) for $400. Has anyone had any experience with
these? I have PCs coming out of my ears and not a lot of bench space, so
I guess that is why I am attracted to these rather than the "real things".
I have read mostly good things about the Velleman stuff. Any other
insights would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Russ

Hi Russ
I bown one of the scopes, and the thing is both accurate & has most of the
true digital scope functions, thogh easier to use. You might be annoyed by
the cheesy software - on one hand, it's got a decent front end & has a
really handy harmoncs analyzer, on the other hand, since they choose to keep
the sample rate constant throughout the ranges,the refresh at low freq's is
*annoyingly* slow.
The thing's *amazingly* small, you can run it with a laptop.
I never got the function gen, but it's supposed to integrate with the scope
quite nicely.
You can download functioal demo software at WWW.VELLEMAN.BE , runs without
the hardware in demo mode.
All this said, I still use my tek 95% of the time. But, trust me, this is
*not* a flaky soundboard scope...
-dim