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Step 27The Complete Deal
Here is the complete setup - scope in the enclosure, with power supply, probes, and data cable.
As for the power supply, anything that produces 9 - 15V DC and can deliver at least 300 mA will do (the scope takes 170 mA, but some headroom never hurts).
The probes are inexpensive coaxial cables with BNC connectors at one end and miniature grabbers on the other. For 150 kHz analog bandwidth you really don't need anything more fancy, and the coaxial cables provide good shielding and low inductance. You could also use standard passive oscilloscope probes, just make sure you set them to 1:1 mode, not 1:10.
The scope in the picture uses a cable that has a built-in USB-to-serial converter - that way I can hook it up to computers that don't have the classic serial (RS-232) port. Those converters come with drivers that make them look like a normal COM port (albeit a virtual one) for the software, so no changes to the scope software are necessary. Still, that solution costs more and does not improve performance otherwise, so I wouldn't go for it unless necessary.
As for the power supply, anything that produces 9 - 15V DC and can deliver at least 300 mA will do (the scope takes 170 mA, but some headroom never hurts).
The probes are inexpensive coaxial cables with BNC connectors at one end and miniature grabbers on the other. For 150 kHz analog bandwidth you really don't need anything more fancy, and the coaxial cables provide good shielding and low inductance. You could also use standard passive oscilloscope probes, just make sure you set them to 1:1 mode, not 1:10.
The scope in the picture uses a cable that has a built-in USB-to-serial converter - that way I can hook it up to computers that don't have the classic serial (RS-232) port. Those converters come with drivers that make them look like a normal COM port (albeit a virtual one) for the software, so no changes to the scope software are necessary. Still, that solution costs more and does not improve performance otherwise, so I wouldn't go for it unless necessary.
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