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Cool. A Rigol 1052E (can those still be mod'd to run at

100MHz?) for $399 seems kind of cheap to me. The Instek GDS-1062A (cripes, the numbering scheme of Instek and Rigol seems almost too similar [DS1102E vs GDS-1102A, etc.]) appears also cheap at $415.

Thanks for the link, Jon

I believe the latest 1052E's can still be done that way how ever, a back step needs to be performed first to down grade the version. Then you can make the change. After that, you can put the upgrade OS back in and the change stays to the 100 Mhz.

This isn't anything I have done but was tested and confirmed to work from another here that drops in now and then. I know who is is but I'll keep that quit for now.

Jamie

The traditional scope makers, Tek and Agilent, are being squeezed on the high end by LeCroy and Rohde&Schwarz, and crushed on the low end by the likes of Rigol.

I don't see Kikusui or Philips or Goldstar or Hitachi any more.

Hey, I wish my scope did this...

John

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Agilent's new 'scope looks nice. ~$1.3k at the low end.

George H.

Here's a slightly-higher-end Chinese scope that looks like a pretty good combination of features:

-- increasing the screen resolution a bit from the standard low-end 320x240 to a widescreen

480x234 strikes me as useful (even if I would prefer more like 720x480).

Philips and Goldstar don't seem much interested in low-volume products any more... and Hitachi has become pretty high end, I think.

It wouldn't be quite the same on a sample, with only a couple frames per second... :-)

Agilent's low end scope *is* a Rigol.

John

You mean?

There are some 8" 100MHz Chinese scopes that are full VGA, but not sure about quality. Around 1K depending on features.

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Nah, they've got something new! It's in all the EE rags. A really big screen, with software upgrades.

George H.

Interesting !!

I just received a Rigol DS1102D on Friday.

< $1150 shipped is a great price.

Still learning how to use the 16 ch logic analyzer, but the digital scope has helped me trouble shoot a timing problem on a PIC18 device.

I am happy so far.

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James

Yep... apparently I truncated the link; that's for fixing it.

Those Agilent MSO-2000 scopes are 800x480 -- quite nice. ...and as someone pointed out yesterday, the cheapest one -- 70MHz, 2 channels -- is $1230, which is a vast improvement on prior Agilent scope pricing. They do immediately hit you up for an additional $700 to add an 8-channel digital input to the 'scope, which seems rather excessive. (In many cases I think I'd rather spend, e.g., $390 on a separate little digital logic analyzer like this one:

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The fully "tricked-out" MSO-2000 -- 4 channels + 8 digital, 200MHz, 100kpts memory -- is $3,316. At that point I'd definitely be looking at used scopes -- you can get something like a used-but-fully-loaded TDS 784D (4 channels, 1GHz, 8Mpts memory) for that much, although it is a much larger box.

---Joel

Looks like Agilent has discontinued the $995 Rigol rebrand. Their low-end scope seems to be...

The front panel is interesting.

John

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Mebbe i am cornfused. I thunk low end Tek was Rigol and low end Agilent was Instek.

...and this looks to me like Tektronix's response to Agilent's new line of scopes:

-- the TDS1000C-EDU series scopes. Just over $700 for a 40MHz (!!! -- surely just artificially crippled), 2 channel, 500MS/s scope. The high-end version, 100MHz, 2 channels, 1GS/s is a respectable $1,071.

The Achilles' Heel of the Tek scopes is their very small memory depth, though -- a mere 2.5kpts. The MSO-2000 series are 100kpts, and most all of the Rigol/Instek/and other Chinese scopes are comparable or better.

---Joel

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That TEK has been around for a while. We've got a TEK1001B. 40MHz. But it doesn't have pretty colors on the LCD display. We paid ~$1k for it back in 2008 (according to the calibration sticker.)

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Most of the time the short memory is fine. In fact I wish the Rigol had an option to restrict the memorey more. When you are doing relatively slow scans the refresh time of the Rigol is a bit annoying.

The most annoying thing about the TEK is that when you adjust a knob and feel the indent click, you don't always get a change.. in the gain or time base.

George H.

The 1000 series in general of the 1000C? I was thinking the "C" series was new, but yeah, clearly just a bit of evolution (perhaps even just software) over the older 1000 series.

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No, it a B. The C must stand for color. $700 is a nice price.

George H.