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If you purchased a RIGOL PLA2216, how many test leads and grabbers did you get?
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: TomKatt on June 18, 2024, 10:31:06 am ---20 sets seems like a rather odd number... How did they arrive at that figure ???
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16 for the signals, and only 4 ground leads.
Shrinkflation in action. :-DD
Still room to loose another 3 leads and grabbers.
TomKatt:
I must be misunderstanding something here - why would any expect more leads than there are channels? For a 16 channel LA, I'd expect 16 leads + 16 grounds.
I wonder if there was some language translation issue where the 32 actually meant leads plus grounds for a total of 32 wires?
But the 20 still confuses me. Maybe 1 ground per quad of inputs?
pcprogrammer:
Originally the PLA2216 was delivered with 32 leads, 32 grabbers, 32 colored stickers numbered 1-16 and 32 black stickers labeled GND.
The stickers are to be placed on the flag like protrusions found at one end of the lead, one at each side of the flag.
Apparently at some point in time at RIGOL they decided to reduce this to 20 leads, 20 grabbers, 32 colored stickers numbered 1-16 and 32 black stickers labeled GND.
Why, probably to save a couple of bucks. |O
The leads for signal and ground are exactly the same, as are the grabbers.
pcprogrammer:
--- Quote from: TomKatt on June 18, 2024, 03:53:45 pm ---I must be misunderstanding something here - why would any expect more leads than there are channels? For a 16 channel LA, I'd expect 16 leads + 16 grounds.
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16 + 16 = 32. See my previous post, signal and ground leads are the same.
TomKatt:
--- Quote from: pcprogrammer on June 18, 2024, 05:06:09 pm ---
--- Quote from: TomKatt on June 18, 2024, 03:53:45 pm ---I must be misunderstanding something here - why would any expect more leads than there are channels? For a 16 channel LA, I'd expect 16 leads + 16 grounds.
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16 + 16 = 32. See my previous post, signal and ground leads are the same.
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But now they've reduced that to 20 leads that are intended to provide both signal and ground connections? So if you need to monitor 16 channel logic, not every channel has a ground? I guess some logic inputs can share a ground, but it certainly feels offputting.
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