New Rigol DS1054Z oscilloscope

[Neo2199]

Yep. Great choice. 

[bitseeker]

Now, we can close the thread after 145 pages. Thank everyone for attending! 

LOL. But, actually, it may still be a useful thread...for the next firmware update. Who knows how many pages that'll generate.

[ProBang2]

Who knows how many pages will be generated until the next firmware update?

Somehow it is like watching "BTTF 2" or "2012":
Something is still upcoming in the future that should had already happen in the past...

[Housedad]

That's it.  We can blame it all on Biff and Marty McFly.  I knew it had to be related somehow.

[rondlh]

I just upgraded my Rigol D1054Z Board version 1.1 to firmware: v00.04.04.01.01  2016/09/14 CRC32: A623D8BC. Works without any problems. I also replaced the fan with a Gelid Silent 5 fan, work great! Riglol still works fine.

[rolycat]

Having read all the comments in this thread, my conclusion is that, for most hobbyists,
the Rigol DS1054Z is still the recommended scope in it's price class.

There you go folks. The summary we've been waiting for.

Now, we can close the thread after 145 pages. Thank everyone for attending! 

A succinct summary. Although, curiously similar to this line in the first post of the thread:

Unless you have specific requirements not met by this model, it is still the default recommendation in its price range.

[Assafl]

Curiously positive posts. I am not used to that... I want the love/hate balance back...



Can't anyone find a dangling participle or a sentence that ends with a preposition in Rigol's manual so we can continue the onslaught on how amateurish they are?

[MrW0lf]

Curiously positive posts. I am not used to that...

You know back in the day engineering had to do with numbers. But times are changing... now it's more about love, acceptance...  feeling of being embraced by community, grooming your friends fur...

Lone madmen trying to check the numbers are luckily either banned, hunted down or given up and floating in sea of love, embraced by church of Z It's all for the best. I look forward into flying robot planes engineered by these kind and loving people when they outgrow $400 budget...

[Assafl]

It is better when humans and cats lick each other.



Very soon your car will be driven by an app written by an engineer that can't solve a differential equation. But that won't be a problem as instead of crashing they'll reboot softly.

[ebastler]

You know back in the day engineering had to do with numbers. But times are changing... now it's more about love, acceptance...  feeling of being embraced by community, grooming your friends fur...

Lone madmen trying to check the numbers are luckily either banned, hunted down or given up and floating in sea of love, embraced by church of Z It's all for the best. I look forward into flying robot planes engineered by these kind and loving people when they outgrow $400 budget...

Those engineers who are not interested in the "love and community" part are still free to indulge in feelings of superiority... But the latter are a long-honored engineering tradition, of course. 

[MrW0lf]

part are still free to indulge in feelings of superiority...

It's not about feelings, its about numbers... possibly on paycheck if you learn how stuff is done by the book from the beginning, and not develop habit of too much acceptance towards "hacky" ways...
https://youtu.be/1apCAzCTZdQ?t=12m25s

[bitseeker]

Cats in the 1054 thread. It has really jumped the shark now.

[Sredni]

Cats in the 1054 thread. It has really jumped the shark now.

More so, if you consider that one was literally a pussy licking video.

[MarkF]

Now, we can close the thread after 145 pages. Thank everyone for attending! 

LOL. But, actually, it may still be a useful thread...for the next firmware update. Who knows how many pages that'll generate.

Shall we see???

Looks like Rigol just posted new firmware version 00.04.04.03.02
http://beyondmeasure.rigoltech.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/1579/p/p-0019/t/page/fm/0

[Housedad]

Hot Damn!!!

[borjam]

Now, we can close the thread after 145 pages. Thank everyone for attending! 

LOL. But, actually, it may still be a useful thread...for the next firmware update. Who knows how many pages that'll generate.

Shall we see???

Looks like Rigol just posted new firmware version 00.04.04.03.02
http://beyondmeasure.rigoltech.com/acton/fs/blocks/showLandingPage/a/1579/p/p-0019/t/page/fm/0

Wow, indeed!

Well, fortunately the forum has just been updated, so I hope the database will withstand the post storm it will generate!

[Housedad]

Wait a minute....

When I went through the menu at the Rigol site, it still says to fill out a form to get a copy.    On top of that, the release notes on the webpage that was referenced is the same number as and old release, and the latest dates in it are 2015. 

Version Information
Released version: 00.04.03.02.03
Release Date: 10/20/2015


In other words, not the new release, just an old one it seems.

[Housedad]

Am I seeing this wrong? 

[Karel]

[Supported Model]    All the MSO/DS1000Z Series Digital Oscilloscopes
[Latest Revision Date]  2017/03/24

[Updated Contents]
--------------------
v00.04.04.03.02  2017/02/06
     - Improved the LXI module
     - Fixed the freeze problem when upgrading based on the boot version of
       0.0.0.13
     - Improved the menu in the language of Traditional Chinese and Korean
     - Modified the failure when downloading waveform to the source module
     - Fixed bugs about reading the memory data through SCPI commands
     - Fixed bugs about Measure
     - Fixed bugs about Filter

Weird that the firmware isn't listed here: http://int.rigol.com/Support/SoftDownload/3   

[borjam]

Wait a minute....

When I went through the menu at the Rigol site, it still says to fill out a form to get a copy.    On top of that, the release notes on the webpage that was referenced is the same number as the release that was pulled, and the latest dates in it are 2015. 

Version Information
Released version: 00.04.03.02.03
Release Date: 10/20/2015


In other words, not the new release, just the old one that was pulled it seems.

No, I just downloaded the "DS1ZUpdate.ZIP" file.

It contains two files:

DS1000ZUpdate.GEL, dated February 8th 2017, and DS1Z_release_notes.txt modified yesterday (April 3rd 2017).

This is the beginning of the release notes:

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[Supported Model]    All the MSO/DS1000Z Series Digital Oscilloscopes 
[Latest Revision Date]  2017/03/24

[Updated Contents]
--------------------
v00.04.04.03.02  2017/02/06
     - Improved the LXI module
     - Fixed the freeze problem when upgrading based on the boot version of 
       0.0.0.13
     - Improved the menu in the language of Traditional Chinese and Korean
     - Modified the failure when downloading waveform to the source module
     - Fixed bugs about reading the memory data through SCPI commands
     - Fixed bugs about Measure
     - Fixed bugs about Filter

They are rather chaotic releasing updates, because this is not linked from the latest "usual" location (which was
http://int.rigol.com/Support/SoftDownload/3).

Now, who dares? We are especially curious about the "plusses" issue!

[Karel]

No mention of a fix for the notorious USB connection problems...

[Housedad]

Ha!  They fooled me.  I read the release notes on the webpage, not in the Zip file.  Thanks for the heads up on it all!

[ebastler]

So -- does the hack still work with the latest firmware? 
(Thought we should get this over and done with right away...)

[Housedad]

I don't know.   And since I'm so new at this game of electronics,  I don't know if I want to be the guinea pig.   If I do it I'll probably remove the hacks  first.  But then again, I could wait for braver souls to blaze the trail.

[Dwaine]

The hacks still work fine.  I noticed no differences with playing around for about five minutes.  I'm a little disappointed.  I expected better.