General > General Technical Chat
The Rigol DS1052E
KTP:
How could it be remotely economical to counterfit such a vertical market product as an oscilloscope and sell it for $400???
My DS1052E seems to have nice knobs and buttons and a good finish, at least on the outside.
If it is a counterfit then I would like this company to make me a $1000 Lexus or BMW please.
flolic:
--- Quote from: rf-loop on March 19, 2010, 11:48:38 am ---
How?
--- End quote ---
I am stupid! ;D
Hard or impossible. You can check with Rigol if that serial number belongs to 100MHZ or 50MHz instrument, but if
counterfeit it can be multiple instruments with the same serial...
tristan:
I think the problems I described a few posts back (scope locking up, corrupted system info display) might have been due to me hitting return before alt-010. It didn't cause a permanent problem but it's worth being careful. The display corruption looked like random data got into the video buffer RAM - maybe the incorrect S/N or version didn't have proper null termination resulting in a buffer overflow?
Tristan
flolic:
--- Quote from: KTP on March 19, 2010, 11:49:05 am ---How could it be remotely economical to counterfit such a vertical market product as an oscilloscope and sell it for $400???
My DS1052E seems to have nice knobs and buttons and a good finish, at least on the outside.
If it is a counterfit then I would like this company to make me a $1000 Lexus or BMW please.
--- End quote ---
Think about it, you can buy ship cargo container of 50MHz units for 150$ a piece (and probably even less), firmware modified it, change front panel label to 100MHz and sell it for 700$+ 8)
KTP:
Do you guys really mean stolen when you say counterfit? I don't know if this word translates to something else in non-english language.
I can't imagine the R&D that would be involved in accurately counterfitting the Rigol DS1052E and getting it to perform similar to the true model, not to mention creating all of the injection molds for the various plastic components and buttons. Then they would have to source all of the analog parts....all of this to sell a few thousand units on ebay????
I could see counterfitting a mop or perhaps a cheap cellphone that would sell millions, but this?
Or do you guys mean that some employee stole a few hundred Rigol scopes from the factory and sold them on ebay?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version