Real Fiero Tech

joe 90 wrote:A scope is a scope?
It's a tool.
If you give it to a chimpanzee, he'll use it as a hammer.

So it's really about learning how to use it.

I still use an HP analogue scope model 1742A, only because I've been using it daily since about 1985 and I inherited it from my old employer.
I've used digital scopes, never liked them, never needed them.
Got a cheap handheld LCD digital storage scope, don't like it, don't use it.
I've never actually NEEDED one to hook up to a car.

What is better for a lot of jobs is a probe with LEDs (made my own, 3 LEDs, 3 resistors), connect it up to the battery pos and neg with crocodile clips, the probe will light the green LED with an earth, will light 2 red LEDs with 12V and will light a single red LED with 5V.
It's the best tool for testing pulses to ignition , injectors etc. Finds blown fuses in seconds.