Good to hear it's OK now, and nice of you for reporting it back...
I usually say that user error is best type of problem, because it's easiest to solve...
It's always best for everybody, including the source of error...
Is there a best USB memory stick size for storing data? Has anyone experienced issues with one too large, say 2T? Would I be better off getting a 32G? Are there particular brands or sizes to avoid?
Now, in my defense, I don't believe this to be pure user error, because I was getting exactly the same thing on the digital channels, and the trigger will not fire at all if you have the channels reversed. In this case, the trigger would fire if the address was set to "don't care". It's just that the address seen by the decoder (0x4e) was clearly not the address that would allow the trigger to fire. As such, this clearly wasn't a case of doing something dumb like reversing the leads. Nor does the signal look any different now, with it working, than it did when it wasn't working, at least that I can tell through inspection.
Hi friends, I'm a new user of this interesting forum to which I hope to be able to contribute soon.
I recently purchased an SDS1204X-E and as I imagine it happens for many of you when you are getting ready to use a new product, I have focused (and partially stuck...) on a strange behavior of the instrument concerning the noise superimposed to the traces.
What I observe on my unit and which leaves me rather perplexed is that the noise superimposed on some tracks (channel 2 in particular ... the magenta) visibly increases when the related trace is moved from the center of the screen and positioned near the edge (using the vertical positioning knob).
This happens both with all the channels set in the GND position and in more marked mode, with the channels set in DC (or AC)
As you can see from the attached images, the thickness of channel two (magenta) and channel 3 (cyan), visibly increases when the related trace is placed near the edge of the screen.
I did the self-calibration but nothing has changed!
Hello,
this is surely a dso beginner question. I own an SDS1204X-E with actual FW 6.1.35R2.
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The problem is how can I cut an dedicated time range of the waveform for viewing and save to file from screen e.g. one period of 140ms in this case? The time base allows only the usual coarse granulation - same for zooming. In opposite the position has fine granulation with 2% of the time scale. I tried with remote too - but it is same behaviour (TIME_DIV 14.2e-3 will be rounded to next value of 10ms).
I thought that if the dso has the points in the memory I can access these points accurate as well.
I made few experiments with segmented aquisition and certain trigger approaches - so far no luck.
Any hint is appreciated.
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Thank you tautech for the kind welcome.
I think it is a kind of misunderstanding. So I want it formulate in another way: The task is to view and to save the data only of one period of any frequency. I think with the coarse horizontal time scale it is not possible as we see in the attached pictures.
Me was told that some of the other dso supplier have a kind of fine timebase adjustment. OK - we have not!
So how we can cut of the desired time range from memory?
Thank you.
Has already someone botherd to exchange the Intensity/Adjust encoder with a detented encoder?
I did this with my two other DSOs (different brand) and found it to be a great enhancement for me.
More often than not, I manage to cause an unwanted jump in value or selection when pressing the knob.
Maybe, tis is just me...
Regards
Chris
Has already someone botherd to exchange the Intensity/Adjust encoder with a detented encoder?
I did this with my two other DSOs (different brand) and found it to be a great enhancement for me.
More often than not, I manage to cause an unwanted jump in value or selection when pressing the knob.
Maybe, tis is just me...
Regards
Chris
Hello Chris,
Not only you. I will change the Encoder too, as soon as I find one with "soft tooth"
Regards
Volker
100 % correct
That was the first thing I noticed after turning on the device.
This is really stupid.
On the 1104X-E, the UI performance grinds to a halt with the LA attached
Quote“I have a Siglent SDS1104X-E hacked to 200 MHz and have installed the WiFi option. At the moment I have no plans to get or use the Arbitrary Waveform Generator (AWG) or the Logic Analyzer (LA) but was wondering, is there any reason NOT to install them? Will it have any negative effect on performance or in some other way? If not, I might as well install them, perhaps in a few years some cheap AWG or LA hardware will turn up on Ebay.”Not at all however you have 30 free trial uses for any options so they are effectively active already albeit only for 30 uses.
For an MSO at this level, I consider the older Rigol DS1000Z+ with LA probes to be a significantly better solution