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Let’s Talk About LeCroy Scopes, AKA… the “Wuerstchenhund Holds Court” Thread

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Fungus:

--- Quote from: free_electron on November 10, 2015, 06:11:21 pm ---- buggy user interfaces. one The 7000 and 7300  DSA's : spin the timebase knob too fast and the scope bluescreens... whoopdedoo. STILL not fixed after 10 years of complaining !

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I'll be sure to bring that one up next time somebody says the DS1000Z is "bugridden" (and more expensive scopes aren't...)  :box:

nctnico:

--- Quote from: bson on February 09, 2016, 04:40:14 am ---So starting to put a nice little kit together here.  Will do a little mini review at some point but right now I've unblocked so many projects I'm going to be busy for a while!   :-+

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I hope you can make some time free to do a review on the WS3k; I'd like to see and read more about it.

Wuerstchenhund:

--- Quote from: Fungus on February 09, 2016, 06:08:28 am ---
--- Quote from: free_electron on November 10, 2015, 06:11:21 pm ---- buggy user interfaces. one The 7000 and 7300  DSA's : spin the timebase knob too fast and the scope bluescreens... whoopdedoo. STILL not fixed after 10 years of complaining !

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I'll be sure to bring that one up next time somebody says the DS1000Z is "bugridden" (and more expensive scopes aren't...)  :box:
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If you don't mind to look stupid, just go ahead!   >:D

The claim above is not just silly but also completely wrong, and this particular user (who has been posting his list pretty much in any LeCroy related thread for a while) already admitted he didn't even bother to upgrade the firmware in all the 14yrs(!) since that bug was fixed (it pretty much only affected very early WP7k/WM8k and DSA scopes running Windows 2000 and was fixed pretty fast back then in 2002, and while software support for W2k scopes has stopped a while ago these scopes can be upgraded to XP and run the latest X-Stream software which is fully supported on those old instruments).

And just to be clear: no-one said more expensive scopes are bug free. But the number of bugs is generally very small, and even non-critical bugs get fixed very quickly. Plus contrary to your favorite Chinese B-brand, with these scopes you know how long you will get support, which with LeCroy is at least 7 years after a scope has stopped being produced.

digsys:

--- Quote from: Wuerstchenhund ---.... with these scopes you know how long you will get support, which with LeCroy is at least 7 years after a scope has stopped being produced.
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PLUS, once your model has been EOS'd, you can d/load ALL the maths and FFT options FREE !! and some of these are quite extensive !
I've updated 3 LeCroys so far, over the last 2 yrs, with options that would have cost me $10's of 1,000s had I bought them with the scope.

awallin:

So I went and got a WS 62MXs-b from the LeCroy factory refurb-shop at ebay. Where do I sign up for the fanboy club?  We need a T-shirt or something! :P

They took my price offer (about -10% from what they asked) so I paid about 1/4th of the list-price  :-+ (62MXs-b still listed at digikey, although this model is being EOSed real soon I think?)
4-channel scopes seems to be the fashion now so the 2-channel ones are sold away since nobody wants them?

The black box arrived today and I had time to play a bit. Everything ok so far but a few observations:
- appears brand new. maybe I can check hardware dates etc. (MFG 2013-JUN on the back) but at least it looks and feels like new-from-factory. manuals, cal-certs etc included.
- it runs quite hot, with loud fans, I guess there's an old CPU in there that runs XP? (or is it the scope ADCs and ASICS that run hot?). Has anyone compared noise and heat to the newer 3000-series?
- it clickety-cliks relays quite a lot and says "Calibrating.." quite a lot. I hope this is just during warmup?
- came with a USB-GPIB dongle which might actually find use in controlling other instruments via software on the scope.
- passive probes PP024 are only 500MHz while scope is listed as 600MHz... oh well.
- stupid Q but what's the BNC-connector on the back-side top right? no text on that... and too lazy to pickup manual now..
- also came with EU power-cord which was a nice touch (US or UK cord would have just been a throw-away..)

If anyone has ideas for DIY active probes and/or DIY LA (needs software license also?) I could be interested. I will probably do a BW test and/or rise-time test at work sometime soon... stay tuned.

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