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First picture on EEVblog of the new R&S MXO4 series oscilloscope :)
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 26, 2024, 11:52:22 pm ---I'll have to give it a try.
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We would love to see your review of it :)
Neoname:
I've just seen this, and installed the new firmware on my MXO4. There's also another major change: "2.2.2.1 On MXO 4, the number of spectrum increased from 1 to 4"
After giving it an hour's testing, frankly I'm absolutely loving it. It's so straightforwards to use, and you can even set zone triggers on the spectrum analysis simultaneously to the waveform.
I wish I'd been able to get some email notification about new firmware. My GLORIS account is set for a private individual, and going into R&S Instrument Manager just says "You are not authorized for this feature. The feature '' is not allowed for your user." so I can't register any of my R&S equipment. @pdenisowski any chance you could tell the team behind GLORIS that private individuals would like to register their equipment to know about firmware updates too?
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Neoname on August 27, 2024, 02:42:26 pm ---I've jus@pdenisowski any chance you could tell the team behind GLORIS that private individuals would like to register their equipment to know about firmware updates too?
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Will look into this and PM you my work email as well. Thanks!
Neoname:
Having spent an evening playing with it now, and I honestly feel that this feature update really does deserve a lot more attention.
If you've ever tried to hunt down something that's being obnoxious to pin down, even from the spectrum analysis: this just gets you straight there within a minute spent setting it up. Minimal effort is required to isolate exactly what you need. It's crazy how useful this is. There are even zone complex logic settings to make and/not/or/xor zone combinations if you need to go all out, and the logic can apply to zones across all channels and the spectrum analysis channels all simultaneously.
I will note a UI flaw in the multiple zone logic. While editing in "Zone Trigger -> Logic Operator -> Trigger condition" it is too easy to delete the spaces between the Zones to create as example "Zone1 andZone2" and there is no way to reinsert a space back. There needs to be a spacebar under the Punctuation input to restore this, else the only thing that can be done is to "Clr" and start entering the Zone logic again.
@pdenisowski Thanks! I'll reply to your PM.
Wolfgang:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 26, 2024, 11:52:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: pdenisowski on August 26, 2024, 05:44:21 pm ---Touché :) Yes, it did take a while but it's a really, really nice HW-based zone trigger. And it's free :)
Shariar at The Signal Path talks about it in his recent teardown on the MXO5 (works the same on MXO4)
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I'll have to give it a try.
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If you do, can you please also check ENOB values ? RS was a bit reluctant to publish those in the past ...
Thanks
Update: I have to correct myself, the MXO5 spec sheet does specifiy "effective number of bits", but with the usual ENOB abbreviation.
The ENOB published is 10bits (10MHz, 80%FS, HD and filters on). Thats not better than the MXO4, which seems OK. AFAIK, they are using the same 12Bit Texas Instrument ADC than the MXO4.
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