More inexpensive Keithley instrumentation: any good?

After the discussion of Keithley's inexpensive precision voltmeter and how it's really just a Chinese import that isn't particularly good, I'm a little leery of this arbitrary waveform generator that they've introduced for the quite low price of $1,325:

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. Does anyone have one? Or really, just know if the user interface and what-not is any good?

---Joel

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Joel Koltner
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This is another Array rebrand...

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It looks like they are dumping these to get rid of them, as the dumped the crappy 2100 DVM.

The 2100's, in addition to having incredibly obtuse firmware and user interface, don't seem to be very reliable.

Buy an Agilent arb?

John

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John Larkin

Thanks for the link, John.

Sad to see U.S. test equipment companies taking the path of just re-badging someone else's low-end goods rather than making their own and differentiating it on, e.g., stellar user interfaces or other software features that don't add to the build cost.

There's some company in California making some T34x series of arbs, that I'm told are pretty good. :-) (Granted, they don't have front-panel displays.)

---Joel

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Joel Koltner

And they are very, very expensive.

John

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John Larkin

Do you want cheap, or do you want quality?

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Michael A. Terrell

No idea, sorry. But Rigol have a spunky looking 60MHz one for about $1800:

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and the 40MHz DG2000 is around $1400:
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Instek have one around that price too.

Dave.

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David L. Jones

Yes. ;-)

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Tim Williams

Methinks there is a big difference between cheap and inexpensive...

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Robert Baer

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