Used Test Equipment to Lower Your Equipment Budget

A laboratory grade sampling digital oscilloscope may be a $5,000 investment if new. A used one of the same model or near identical may be $800 to $1250. Often an engineer working on an enterprise project is faced with the acute need to complete a certain test. The test equipment may be used for that project only. If it cannot be justified at the new price it may be calorimeter indonesia easily so justified at the used price. Often, you may find the used price is even less or not much more than the rental price (and the rental machine is probably one that is used; sometimes very badly used!). Thus, thinking about used test gear is not a bad idea. Where can one find such bargains? A good search on your favorite search engine - such as Google or Bing - will lead one to Craigslist and many other selling sites. There are a few large purveyors of used equipment who make it a practice of buying up used equipment from corporate and university labs. These are often refurbished, cleaned up, re-calibrated and ready for the next user. It is not a small market and it is pretty hot. If you go to Craigslist and do some searching you will find the test equipment goes pretty fast. I recently did a few checks for oscilloscopes, both plain vanilla scopes and digital multi-channel scopes and found that about two thirds of those listed were already sold (or pulled off the list, meaning the seller had closed the offering). If you have a used piece proximate analyzer indonesia of test equipment you might be surprised how many potential buyers there are who will bid on it. Buyers can be universities, high schools, small business owners, private techs and inventors or the research lab of a large corporation. Chances are the most aggressive buyer might well be one of the big used equipment operators that will buy your item, refurbish it and put in on their list. Just do a Google for buyers of used electronic test equipment and you may be surprised how many there are.