re: lab equipment. discussing money, seeking advice
@noracodes With all that said I also want to say that it's quite a powerful machine for the price. lots of flexibility and a good bandwidth. it can even output 20 V p-p (10 V to -10 V) into a high-impedance load, which is more than many function generators can (though at such a high output level it has trouble meeting the 1 ns rise and fall time spec that the 350 MHz model has. it meets it fine at low output levels though, where low means about 3-ish volts. it can do 2 ns rise and fall times though!)
oh yes, speaking of that, the fact that you can individually adjust the rising and falling edge times on the pulse waveform is Pretty Nice. Not sure if that's a standard feature on modern function generators (the last one we used was a wavetek, you know the one, with all the physical knobs, in every university lab ever)
-F