14 May
2012
14 May
'12
5:58 p.m.
I also have a DS1152e and hacked it to 100 MHz. The scope doesn't
actually sample faster, it just gives you one more notch on the timebase.
The scope is still sampling at 1 GHz. .I took it to work and attached it
to a high performance signal generator in the lab. It looked quite nice
even at 10 nS / div.
The Atten ADS1102CAL is a competitor, similar specs 1 Gs/sec 100 Mhz and
has a much larger screen. One shortcoming is the 40K sample, where the
Rigol has a 1 M buffer
An interesting feature of the Rigol is the ability to compare a stored
waveform to a sampled signal and trigger when signals don't agree.
Jim.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/14/2012 06:44 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
For the price, I love my Rigol.
I bought a Rigol DS1052e 50MHz scope a little over a year ago, when it
became clear that they could be easily hacked into a 100MHz scope with a
firmware tweak. Since then, Rigol have caught on that this was going on,
and rather than drop the hammer the firmware hackers, they just lowered
the price of the 100MHz version. You can get them for about $400 now,
new. If I were in the market today, I'd just buy the DS1102e and skip
the DS1052e hacking.
It's not the best scope in the world, but I DO think it's the best
non-used digital scope you can buy for $400.
They're quite good. In fact, HP/Agilent rebadges and sells them as
their low-end line.
That said, I also have an old 60MHz analog Tek
scope. I think they work
well together, and I think it's useful to have both a digital storage
scope a nice cheap analog scope in your toolkit.
Most definitely.
-Dave