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Best Oscilloscope under $300?
tautech:
--- Quote from: Martin72 on February 24, 2024, 12:11:07 am ---
--- Quote ---And the Siglent cheering crowd has entered the building
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And who was it before that?
People who had a bad experience ages ago and have been living off it ever since...
Have you broadened your horizons in the meantime and borrowed an SDS5000X, an SDS2000Xplus, an SDS2000X HD or even a 6000 or 7000 for testing?
The earth has continued to turn since your experience, I know, sometimes you don't feel that way.
Get the devices from today to test so that you can have your say, otherwise it sounds like a long-playing record that always jumps back and forth in the same place.
Instead, you accuse others of being paid cheerleaders.
Think about what kind of style that is.
Sorry, but I think you are actually a competent, smart person.
Posts like this from you are completely irritating.
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This.
Hell, if you are prepared to test many and continually go up the ladder in search of higher BW anyone else can too.
They just need a will to do it.
However, the topic is best cheap scope, which is an entirely fluid situation as it is always changing.
2N3055:
--- Quote from: nctnico on February 23, 2024, 11:56:18 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on February 23, 2024, 08:34:21 pm ---Did you mention that Keysight and AIM TTi AWG also did not not support your specific requirements.
And that (expensive) Tektronix AWG you bought in the end also have bugs....
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And the Siglent cheering crowd has entered the building :scared: Maybe it is time to tell how much are they paying you (either in money or discounts)?
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Serves me right to try a fact based discussion with you.....
How much is R&S paying you to go into every Siglent topic to state R&S has superior decoding ...
Is this only level of discussion you are able to produce.??
Personal insults, insinuations and hate..?
baldurn:
--- Quote from: nctnico on February 24, 2024, 12:34:22 am ---Not years ago and not one bad experience. If only it was 1 bad, isolated experience... And I'm not the only one. Just read Siglent's response to a serious problem:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/siglent-1202x-e-serial-decoding-not-working/msg5180694/#msg5180694
They don't even know the real world use case! That is the most alarming part. But then the apologists get in and claim the equipment is too cheap to make it work as it should. Tell me I'm wrong to call that out?
I have had much better experiences with tech support from Tektronix and Keysight. I even went as far asking Keysight very specific questions about the long term reliability of one of their products. Their engineers went down to the component level in order to answer that question. And I'm not a big customer at all (far from it). Not saying Keysight never goes wrong, but they know their stuff and make it right.
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Is it really fair to compare tech support for a product at least 10 times (or 100 times!) more expensive?
While the issue was handled badly by Siglent tech support, it does not really seem to be that big of a deal. It is a bad firmware for one specific submodel of a scope and the fix is to downgrade to the previous firmware and wait for an update. No other scopes are affected. Somehow you extended this into a general problem with Siglent, which it clearly is not.
Aldo22:
The general excitement level indicates a full moon. :-DD
tatel:
At this point I think OP should have a clear picture about which advice is to be followed if he wants to waste his money. Enough said about that.
Other things to take into account:
a) It's worth to pay more to be sure the device you are buying does rigth what you want it to do.
b) It's worth to make additional searches before buying, to be sure the device you are considering does right what you want it to do. Don't take any advice in this thread as more than just a heading towards perhaps the right direction. Your homework is to know what you need, and to check carefully the device you are considering is able to do it right, before buying. Learning begins before buying, sorry. If you don't do your homework, you'll be spending your money willi-nilly. You could get bitten, and only you would be guilty for it. People speaking here does not necessarily own the devices you are considering.
c) It's worth to open new threads to ask questions if -after some searchs- you are still unsure the device you are considering does right what you want it to do. Asking questions specifically about some device will probably bring some owners to explain to you what they like/don't like on that device.
d) Even when asking about an specific device, make sure to ask questions and get answers about the characteristics you are interested in. Owners of that device could be not using that characteristic and be unaware of any problems on it.
e) It's worth to buy from some seller that abides with consumer protection law and takes returns, just because you don't like what you got after all.
Last, even on the 400 bucks range, you'll probably won't get all you want. Say you hope to get a device with intregrated logic analyzer. There are devices in that range advertising that capability, but at work time, you could find they are not working as you were expecting.You could need to go up to a thousand bucks range to have a chance of getting that right. That's just an example. There will probably some compromise/choice to be made.
To avoid getting your ass bitten, the only way is to search and learn what you need, to do what you want. Quite a few hours of previous work. It will be easier if you do your homework, so you will be able to ask the right questions. Just a generic question as "best device on 300 bucks range" is not the best thing to do.
Take it easy, and good luck
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