15 May
2012
15 May
'12
4:53 a.m.
On Mon, 14 May 2012, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 05/14/2012 06:44 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
I'll third this. My bench also features a hot-rodded Rigol DS1052e and an
HP 50Mhz. analog scope.
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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.