Hi John

You will find many threads devoted to this topic on may forums. It is my firm belief that you won't find anything else out there that does what Pico does, especially for the price they ask.

I have to lay my cards out here & say that I have little experience of anything else, other than Snap-on products. Although the Modis, Vantage & Verus are very capable tools, I find that they restrict the process of gathering waveform data.

To be fair to the Snappy products, they do offer more than just an "oscilloscope" within the package. A quality DVOM & graphing meter & some "vehicle specific" test information is built into them all. The Modis & Verus have four channels that "run" regardless of whether they are selected or not. You can't devote your entire arsenal of samples, to one channel "main event", like you can with Picoscope.

If you want a scope that is future proof & able to navigate each waveform at will..... & also post the data files & images all over the internet, so that you can learn & share with your colleague.... Pico does all this so well.

Did I mention the price? Did I mention the free for life software updates? Bloody hell I don't know where to start or stop!

Autonerdz is a great source of information too! Tom Roberts offers an unprecedented level of understanding & back up.

There are many other scopes out there & I can't say anything good or bad about them, as I have only used Picoscope, but suffice it to say, I have not found it lacking in any department & I like to think that I push it to the limits.

HTH

Dave