I've become a fan of Siglent equipment, but not because of any bias or financial gain, but simply because the Siglent equipment performs (well almost) and is reasonable. I've been delighted with the 1st Siglent DSO and this set a baseline for expectations which generally have been met by other Siglent gear we've purchased, almost $6K to date and more expected soon.
However, I am not happy with the output jack spacing on the SDP3303X, nor the menu and touch screen on the SDG2042X, not what I have come to expect from Siglent. Recently we became involved with a difficult & complex design which hopefully will lead to a custom chip developed in the future. During some testing we were tracing a problem with the DSO, only to find after many hours of swearing and frustration it was the
DAMN PP215 Scope Probe causing the issue!! It was/is intermittent and wiggling the base causes the trace to jump around, not good thing to trace precision low level sensitive analog signals
When I was still working a regular job (retired a few years ago), any of this non-sense would get cut in half and tossed into the garbage, had no time for faulty equipment, test leads or probes. Almost grabbed the snippers, but decided to tie the probe in a knot instead!!
Think some others have had issues with these PP215 probes, so going to get some SP2030A probes instead. Lesson learned again, and again, and again....... always check your equipment even when doing development work. It's always easy to blame yourself, your design, or someone else, when it's faulty equipment that has Murphy laughing at you
Do my best to keep the door closed and locked for Murphy, but he seems to find a way in now and then
Best,
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