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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: keithc on June 20, 2017, 05:19:35 pm

Title: Question re RIGOL DS2072A and hacking
Post by: keithc on June 20, 2017, 05:19:35 pm

Hi, I am thinking of buying the RIGOL DS2072A with a view to hacking it sometime in the future (may be some time as I don't need the full 300Mhz bandwidth immediately). However, looking at the specs for the 4 differnt models of the DS2000A/A-S, the time-base scale differs for each of the models. DS2072A is 5ns/div -50s/div, DS2102A is 5ns/div - 50s/div, DS2202A is 2ns/div - 1000s/div and the DS2302A is 1ns/div - 1000s/div. All other specifications are identical. If, in the future I hack this to the DS2302A, will I be stuck with the 5ns/div - 50s/div time-base scale? Would this make any significant difference in use?

Title: Re: Question re RIGOL DS2072A and hacking
Post by: Daruosha on June 20, 2017, 05:58:44 pm

No. The timebase will be reduced to 1ns when you upgrade to 300MHz bandwidth. You can shoot. 

Title: Re: Question re RIGOL DS2072A and hacking
Post by: jeanguypataterub on September 26, 2017, 08:02:51 pm

How do you hack this scope? I thought it couldn't be done.