Hi bxs,
Could I please ask what you think about your Atten ADS1102CAL?
Many Thanks
Stephen
Hi Stephen,
I think you are asking if Atten ADS1102CAL it's a good buy, so I will try to answer that.
It's a hard and at the same time a simple question, it's hard because we always want the most for the less($ €) and is simple because all those cheap DSOs are just toys
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So in my opinion for just a few hundred $, let say 3 or 4 you are buying a toy not a real thing.
In my case I wanted something to have at home that could give me basic functions, sometimes just gathering dust and it needed to be cheap and ATTEN checked the requirements.
When I bought it, the only thing at +- the same price was the rigol(50MHz), this ATTEN was 100MHz and had a better LCD. Note that I knew about the hack of rigol 50 to 100MHz, but I didn't want additional work to get the 100MHz.
About my experience with my ATTEN, it as been good for the most part, what I really don't like are some bugs, that in rare situations force me to restart the scope.
I read about people with same/similar ATTEN scopes with the same problems, and some of them got a firmware update for fixing those, I also tried to get one once, but is was just a nasty experience, lets say that I contacted ATTEN with all the data about my scope and they replied asking again for exactly the data that I had already send, it was so stupid that I simple quite trying
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So this days if someone buy a new ATTEN they probably get it with new firmware, but it's a gamble.
The Rigol seems better in support, but you should never expect real support for cheap scopes, most of the times what you buy is what you will get
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To some up, at the end of the day the scope as been doing the job
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, note that I stop looking for scopes since I bought mine, I'm sure that these days exist better ones, from ATTEN and others.