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New (to us) Rigol DS4054

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tom66:
We have just acquired a Rigol DS4054 from a bankrupt stock auction. 

The instrument seems to work okay and came with all options installed, bargain! 

However the UART decoder doesn't seem to work well, and there are a few other minor bugs... I was thinking I would upgrade the firmware but then read that this can in some unfortunate cases brick the scope. Due to its age, it would obviously not be under warranty any more and therefore I don't think I'd be very popular at the office if I did this and killed it.

The scope is currently SW 00.02.00 and hardware 1.2 and we would be looking at installing 00.03.02.02.00.

Is it worth doing?  Will the scope be bricked?  If it does go bad can it be recovered or will it be only something Rigol can fix?  :-BROKE

Thanks

Fungus:

--- Quote from: tom66 on April 17, 2023, 12:48:29 pm ---Is it worth doing?

--- End quote ---

Yes.


--- Quote from: tom66 on April 17, 2023, 12:48:29 pm ---Will the scope be bricked?

--- End quote ---

Very unlikely.


--- Quote from: tom66 on April 17, 2023, 12:48:29 pm ---If it does go bad can it be recovered

--- End quote ---

Probably.

coromonadalix:
Or to be sure ask Rigol or check the website to be sure ...

Fungus:
FWIW, here's the release notes. If you have 00.02.00.00 installed then you get all of these:

[Supported Model]    All the MSO/DS4000 Series Digital Oscilloscopes
[Latest Revision Date]  2018/07/04

[Updated Contents]
--------------------
v00.03.02.02.00  2018/07/04

     - Cancel the speed adjustment of vertical offset

[History]
-------------
v00.02.03.01.01  2017/08/15

     - Fixed Screen confusion
     - Speed the adjustment of vertical offset
     - Extend the size of label to 10 characters
     - Fixed the storage problems


tom66:
Hmm, the upgrades seem pretty minimal to be honest.  The only issue I've found so far is that the UART decoder isn't great (but then again the Rigol serial decoders have never been great on my DS1000Z, so perhaps I shouldn't be that surprised.)

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