Cheap amazon scope probes

[brandon7861]

I used one of these for maybe 40 minutes. The witches hat would pull the probe apart when removing it and it didn't like switching because the guts of the probe move when trying to remove the hat and that would jam up the 10x switch. The BNC plastic molded part somehow rotates on the cable too. Today, I took the other one out (was a 2 pack) and tried it on my new scope. Junk. That one's 10x switch was bad out of the box.

The probes that came with my new siglent are very similar (almost identical) in design as the amazon ones and I am convinced they tried to copy the ones siglent uses. I would say to avoid these, but I now believe you should probably avoid any $10 probe. Lesson learned.

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[19wrc333]

A while ago I got some $20 cleqee P2200 probes from AliExpress, they seemed ok-ish. Using the word "seemed" as I've only used them a few times on my old boat anchor Philips PM3260E. The reason I only used them a few times was because usually when I needed to use the scope, .. it wouldn't turn on and the first thing I had to do was repair the scope itself due to issues with the internal power supply. Happened again this week and I was finally fed up with having to muck about high voltages. Not my thing.

So spent a number of evenings this week to research what is available nowadays and had a terrible time researching all possibilities and features.
Finally ended up with 3 scopes on the list in about the same price category (black friday discounts et al) and feature wise on features I deemed important, time will tell if that's really the case.

A Siglent SDS822x, a Micsig MHO14-200N and a Rigol DHO924S.
Had a lot of trouble deciding between the Siglent and the Rigol. Even while the Siglent had less features and is somewhat slower (not much).

Last night I ended up going for the Rigol, there was just too many features that it had over the Siglent. Hopefully I made the right choice.

Once the scope arrives I will retest those cleqee probes again to see if they're passable for resale or recycle bin material.
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