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$150 portable scope finder saved me 3 hours of troubleshooting
I dropped money on a Fluke handheld oscilloscope last month for tracing intermittent signal loss in a G1000 backup bus. Worked through a bad connector in 20 minutes that would have taken me all afternoon with a multimeter. Any other techs carry one of these for quick looks at waveforms?
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charles_green23d ago
The "20 minutes with a scope vs all afternoon with a multimeter" part really hit home for me. I picked up a similar handheld scope a while back for chasing down a noisy alternator output on a Navion. It showed me the ripple pattern right away, which told me it was a bad diode before I even touched a wrench. Would have been hours of swapping parts without it. That said, I still keep a multimeter in my bag for basic continuity checks - the scope is just a different tool for a different kind of problem.
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stella_lee23d ago
Oh @charles_green, did you find the scope's learning curve worth it for that kind of diagnosis?
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