I just got funded to purchase all new oscilloscopes for my advanced
labs. I've selected Agilent (used to be Hewlett-Packard) scopes for
various reasons. In particular I'm thinking of getting the DSO3152A 150
MHz scope.
My question is should I buy the 1 year to 3 year warranty extension. In
general I figure that these are a waste of money and never get them. I
have not bought a scope in about 12 years, I assume that they are
generally still robust which is *part* of the reason that I'm going with
H-P = Agilent.
Have any of you bought a bunch of (good quality) scopes recently and
had problems in the first few years????
The cost is $56 per scope which is enough to get an additional DMM for
that lab station.
Thanks,
John
P.S. bc - I've been swamped for the last 3 months. I'll get your 6V
lamps tested in the next couple of weeks now that the semester is almost
over.
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John E. Sohl, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Weber State University
2508 University Circle
Ogden, UT 84408-2508