What Oscilloscope

[crossy67]

I'm looking for an oscilloscope to test things like ABS sensors. I have very little experience at all with them so I'm looking for some advice regarding what to look for and how much I'm likely to need to spend. I have seen storage scopes, am I right in thinking they won't provide live real time data?

[crossy67]

Wow, £700 is a bit more than I was expecting, I only need it to check the odd crank or ABS sensor. The small hand held devices not good then? There are some proper scopes on Ebay for £2-300.

Something like this maybe? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hantek-DSO5072P-Digital-...

Or something like this. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Uni-T-UT-81B-Multimeter-...

[crossy67]

Thanks for the advice chaps. And thanks for the offer Slo mo, unfortunately I'm a long way away or I'd have jumped at the chance.

To be honest if the only option is the £700 one I'm going to have to say I'm oot. I only thought about buying one to try to resolve an ABS fault, my scanner tells me the where the fault is, sensor is seeing a signal as the wheel speed is showing and consistent with the others but that doesn't mean the wheel bearing isn't damaged (I think). Hence why I just want something that's going to tell me if the ABS signal is correct.