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A reminder¹: Questions on how to use an oscilloscope is on topic on a QA website for electrical engineering professionals, students, and enthusiasts.

There is a Vote-to-Close reason that looks something like:

Questions on the use of electronic devices are off-topic as this site is intended specifically for questions on electronics design.

It is there because we used to get a bunch of questions like "Will this charger work with my laptop?" or "How can I connect my DVD player to this TV?". People saw "electronics" in the name and posted the question.

Not for closing questions about using tools-of-the-trade.







¹ I couldn't find a good translation of the Swedish passive-aggressive archaic/idiom "På förekommen anledning" used when you have to post a public notice because someone did something they shouldn't have.

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Yes. Questions about tools used in electrical engineering are on-topic, including:

  • Oscilloscopes, bench supplies, multimeters, spectrum analyzers etc - all manner of engineering bench/lab instruments.

  • Tools used in electronics production, including everything from solder irons to P&P machines.

  • EDA tools, circuit simulators, compilers & other programming tools for microcontrollers or FPGA.

Off-topic:

  • Asking for recommendations of particular tools or where to buy them.
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  • \$\begingroup\$ I would suggest a carve-out to the shopping recommendation carve-out: Asking what specific features/performance requirements will make tools/equipment suited for a particular task (and why). Knowing this enables the asker to do their own shopping. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Nov 20 at 21:21
  • \$\begingroup\$ @BenVoigt A question along the nature of "what sample rate should my scope have to reliably measure this kind of signal" would be fine indeed, but not "which is the cheapest scope with sample rate x". It is a bit of a gray area and I'm not sure I want to attempt writing a detailed specification of all that. \$\endgroup\$ Commented Nov 21 at 10:02

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