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Highend features such as serial decoding and mask limit testing are included as standard no more expensive options to pay for. In this video, i will show you the hantek 1008c auto oscilloscope software. It provides two channels plus an external trigger and can record 6000 data points per channel. Tektronix tds210 digital oscilloscope for sale online ebay. Sampling at a maximum of 1gsas, the 2207b has a buffer memory of 64msamples and a sophisticated 1mhz awg signal generator. The 54600b is a 100 mhz, 2 channel digital oscilloscope from agilent. The oscilloscope is basically a graphdisplaying device it draws a graph of an electrical signal.
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