Man, that is a gorgeous piece of kit! Looking forward to seeing a video of it in action.
Also, thank you once again for passing your old scope on! I can't properly express how grateful I am for that. I'll be putting it to good use and hopefully it'll serve me as well as it did you!
So, what kind of active probes are you looking at for the new scope? What sort of bandwidth?
Thank you timb - I need to go buy some packing material to ship your scope. The boxes I have are too small and I was not able to leave my desk all last week.
For probes - I need a variety to do what I want to do.
SMPS design/validation I need a pair of DC current probes, differential amplifier or probes for sense resistor current measurements, injection transformer for loop response measurements, and likely the power-rail probe.
For high-speed digital I need high-speed 6Ghz active probes to look at timing and signal integrity on signals that will probably be close to the BW limit of this scope. I suspect there will be a measurement technique learning curve to go along with my circuit design and PCB layout learning curves in the high-speed realm.
First task is to figure out how the scope deals with memory. I did a few tests and could not figure out how to capture more data than what fits on the screen. It is important that I understand the details of how the sample rate and memory are handled.
Basic functions seem to be quite obvious and intuitive and I love having the choice of buttons, touch screen, and mouse to navigate. I was quickly able to get to the point where I was functionally with my old Tek scope in terms of basic setup, triggering, horiz/vert controls, etc. The fancier features like reference wave forms, trigger on data packets, dual channel arbitrary waveform generators that can take a displayed waveform and 'play' it back. Awesome.
Before I can even think of spending $15k on probes and other accessories - I need to master the fundamentals. Maybe some of the other winners of the 3000's, 4000's and other Keysight owners can chime in. Maybe I should post video questions too.