Lab Scope Question

[DustyAnthony]

I have been told that a scanner with tell you a name of a city and maybe the zip and a lab scope will tell you the street name, adress and color of the house you are looking for. With that said, I want to supliment my scanner with a scope but my schoooling hasn't really touched on that much. Is there enough info out there to belive it possible to buy a lab scope and be able to teach yourself how to really use it. I have some of the fundimentals down but thats about all. Is the vantage pro user freindly to a novice or geared more to an old pro.

[joeturtle]

labscopes

I did'nt know squat about labscopes when i bought my modis. I attended a few snapon training seminars, and played with the scope in all of my free time. The wave form libraries are a big help. I learned to just look for anomalies in the waveforms and not try to overthink it. Testing parts before and after repairs helped me prove to myself how things worked. So many people just use the scanner to pull codes and don't understand the graphing
and labscope features.

[MURPHY951]

Lab Scope Help

Try Omitec.com ,yhere Are Some Helpful Ideas There

[aautomaan]

a labscope is an awesome tool and a must for a true diagnostician. my first taste of scopes was in 1995 at school with the old style oscilliscope with the little green light that crossed the screen. it was very chanllenging to set up and i probably wouldn't have figured it out with an instructor helping me. i then had a vantage in the late 90's. the thing with snap on is they help you with connecting to what you are measuring. i now have the verus and i think the component testing part is the same as the vantage pro. i am not sure of this but it seems to have the same trademarks as my old vantage. this is probably the best start for a beginner because of the help the tool gives you. i think there are three things you have to remember. you are measuring voltage and time, what you are looking at may not mean anything if you don't know what it is supposed to look like, and it takes a lot of time to become good at scopes but the more time you waste before getting started the longer it takes to get good. and you don't have to be a master of scopes to use it effectively. good luck. and there is lots of help out there. follow every link you can and you can never ask too many questions