I don’t need much more than 100Mhz but I’d like to have serial/CAN decoding. I could probably get away with a 2 channel, but it seems like a lot of the extra features like wifi control and digital channels only come on the 4 channels like the 1204X-E, plus it has some waveform generation (though maybe that’s an addon?).
Anyone have a budget model they’d recommend? The DS1504 seems like it’s getting a bit long in the tooth and the price point doesn’t really seem competitive with better scopes.
My recommendation is if you mainly do digital, then get a good logic analyzer and you can cheap out on the scope. The point is you have good digital domain tools, and if the device is reading gibberish, you only need a cheap analog scope to make sure the signal is clean enough. Note that this is if you mainly do digital because if you do analog signalling too, then of course get a good scope instead.