With all this teaser frenzy, who is thinking in buying one?
With all this teaser frenzy, who is thinking in buying one?
I don't because it doesn't have TekVPI interface. This makes all their probes unusable like current or differential probes. Don't understand why they decided that way.
I don't because it doesn't have TekVPI interface. This makes all their probes unusable like current or differential probes. Don't understand why they decided that way.
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I don't because it doesn't have TekVPI interface. This makes all their probes unusable like current or differential probes. Don't understand why they decided that way.At the beginning i was surprised as well.
No TekVPI?
But... reason is TekVPI uses power, that collides with beeing battery powered. Also the size.
RTB2004 also has pure BNCs.
50ohm? Active probes?
Which lowest series scope has that?
And the TBS2000B series has it too. But might be true that it has something to do with battery power or the small size.
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I don't because it doesn't have TekVPI interface. This makes all their probes unusable like current or differential probes. Don't understand why they decided that way.At the beginning i was surprised as well.
No TekVPI?
But... reason is TekVPI uses power, that collides with beeing battery powered. Also the size.
RTB2004 also has pure BNCs.
50ohm? Active probes?
Which lowest series scope has that?
Haven't done the teardown yet, but I'd bet it's a compromise of the construction.
And the TBS2000B series has it too. But might be true that it has something to do with battery power or the small size.
If only it boot up as fast as RTB, and as far as I know it takes it's time doing selftests etc.
To be fair it'll better than the realistic "boot time" on most old analogue scopes.
From the Tek 465 service manual...
That's how I feel better about such things anyway
If we are going to nitpick or ant f.. like we Dutch like to say a true analog scope does not have boot time. No digital processor in there
If we are going to nitpick or ant f.. like we Dutch like to say a true analog scope does not have boot time. No digital processor in there
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I don't because it doesn't have TekVPI interface. This makes all their probes unusable like current or differential probes. Don't understand why they decided that way.At the beginning i was surprised as well.
No TekVPI?
But... reason is TekVPI uses power, that collides with beeing battery powered. Also the size.
RTB2004 also has pure BNCs.
50ohm? Active probes?
Which lowest series scope has that?
Most scopes are at best 50ohm//20pF - since they merely bang a 50ohm in parallel with the 1Mohm/20pF input.
And the TBS2000B series has it too. But might be true that it has something to do with battery power or the small size.
Yeah, not really a problem... A PSU for probes few 100s of mA is like 1sq cm.... They could have made it to be limited power like Keysight MSOX3000T so you can at least connect one current probe.
No. That is marketing decision. On software side it has their new touch GUI and it basically has many a 3000 series features, without RF part, and only 500MHz front end. Since many people don't go for 1GHz model or need SA part in a scope (which is not really good, and unlike 4 series is not correlated with time domain), if they made it really fully featured it would pretty much cannibalize sales of their own 3 series.
So they decided to make it close, but no cigar...
What we see lately is that 1000/2000 and 2000/3000 series ranges are blending together..
Added some processing to the image to pull contrast up....
And the TBS2000B series has it too. But might be true that it has something to do with battery power or the small size.
Yeah, not really a problem... A PSU for probes few 100s of mA is like 1sq cm.... They could have made it to be limited power like Keysight MSOX3000T so you can at least connect one current probe.
No. That is marketing decision. On software side it has their new touch GUI and it basically has many a 3000 series features, without RF part, and only 500MHz front end. Since many people don't go for 1GHz model or need SA part in a scope (which is not really good, and unlike 4 series is not correlated with time domain), if they made it really fully featured it would pretty much cannibalize sales of their own 3 series.
So they decided to make it close, but no cigar...
What we see lately is that 1000/2000 and 2000/3000 series ranges are blending together..That is a good thing because the oscilloscope market is way too segmented with only little differences between the models. Even up to a point where some manufacturers already use the same hardware for different ranges.
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I don't because it doesn't have TekVPI interface. This makes all their probes unusable like current or differential probes. Don't understand why they decided that way.At the beginning i was surprised as well.
No TekVPI?
But... reason is TekVPI uses power, that collides with beeing battery powered. Also the size.
RTB2004 also has pure BNCs.
50ohm? Active probes?
Which lowest series scope has that?
Most scopes are at best 50ohm//20pF - since they merely bang a 50ohm in parallel with the 1Mohm/20pF input.I'd like to see some references for that. Most of the scopes I've seen make sure the input is purely 50 Ohm and have a relay to switch between paths. 50 Ohm with 20pf in parallel is pretty much useless.
Bit pissed off the Farnell datasheet link has been pulled ...... anyone have another link or saved copy they can flick my way ?
Bit pissed off the Farnell datasheet link has been pulled ...... anyone have another link or saved copy they can flick my way ?
Grab it now.