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I think scopes are a MUST in automotive diagnostics. There an excellent too for finding glitches in MAF’s, CKP, CMS and so forth that DVOM’s can not pick up. Thats the next tool i want after i have purchased a compressor for my garage.
Id love to own this particular tool but it will never happen due to the cost 🙁
I have a modis , Its great for using as scope as its all in the one package . Having the ability to be able to visable “see” what its doing is great and also the capture speed aswell. I cringe when i see people using multimeters to check injector voltage. A high grade multimeter only refreshs 4 time’ish a second which is no way fast enough
Nope off ebay as on only need the scope part of it for use in my job as I dont work on cars or lorrys
My company upgraded our failure analysis lab and was going to toss out a Tektronix 150MHz 4 channel scope and they let me take it home. I am so excited to try this out. There are a lot of companies that sell used lab equipment and you will be surprised what you can get at a bargain.
I got to get a hands on demonstration on using an O scope on an ignition system to show what a good looking cylinder looked like next to one with a fouled spark plug. It was interesting. Like anything, it would take a little getting used to reading the wave forms and learning what a clean signal looked like and then being able to tell what the dirty signal was telling you. It’s old school, but so is using a vacuum gauge to diagnose the mechanical integrity of a motor. Just because the cars are computerized, doesn’t mean the old techniques can’t be used, because at the heart of the beast still sits that old ICE block refined over a hundred years.
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