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New Rigol HDO1000 12-bit DSO - BUGs
Fungus:
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on November 12, 2022, 10:19:11 am ---Yeah, they released it too soon.
They were probably under enormous pressure to show something after huge investment and effort in making what is now 2nd chipset generation...
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Christmas sales season is coming. The bean counters probably prioritized getting the hardware out there instead of waiting another year.
(and it's not as if Rigol is the only company that does that...)
2N3055:
--- Quote from: Fungus on November 12, 2022, 12:34:30 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on November 12, 2022, 10:19:11 am ---Yeah, they released it too soon.
They were probably under enormous pressure to show something after huge investment and effort in making what is now 2nd chipset generation...
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Christmas sales season is coming. The bean counters probably prioritized getting the hardware out there instead of waiting another year.
(and it's not as if Rigol is the only company that does that...)
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Well apparently R&S does it too... :-DD
Yes, companies do that.. that is right. But there should be a threshold of how low do you go.. It damages reputation, especially if you are in the process trying to build one ....
Fungus:
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on November 12, 2022, 12:51:34 pm ---Yes, companies do that.. that is right.
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Yep. I remember Siglent offering to post little bags of capacitors to to their "early adopters" so they solder them to the PCB and finally be able to compensate their probes properly.
Don't even get me started on second-rate companies like Apple telling people they were holding their new iPhones wrong, or the reason the phones were bending was that people were putting them in their pockets.
2N3055:
--- Quote from: Fungus on November 12, 2022, 01:06:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: 2N3055 on November 12, 2022, 12:51:34 pm ---Yes, companies do that.. that is right.
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Yep. I remember Siglent offering to post little bags of capacitors to to their "early adopters" so they solder them to the PCB and finally be able to compensate their probes.
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That Siglent issue was not the same. It was a production batch problem.
Not saying it isn't a problem, but wasn't the same as releasing something that simply doesn't even work out of the box.
Errors when you have "we didn't anticipate this problem, and we had to learn it the hard way" is not the same as "we only developed 60% of product but we need to start selling it despite we know it doesn't even work. Who cares, we'll fix it later".
And it is not even advocating for Siglent here ( and they in fact learned from that and pay more attention to maturity before release..) but not even Rigol used to do that... Rigol used to be much more solid company in that regard years ago than right now. Let's hope they realize a mistake and make it right.
Siglent and Rigol are only ones keeping western brands in check. Otherwise it would be back to old cartel behaviour and blackmailing us with prices.. We need Siglent and Rigol to do well, so everybody benefits from it. Staunch Keysight users that would never buy "those chinese toys" never had Keysight at current prices. They should write a thank you note to their Chinese friends..
skander36:
Maybe it is too much said "... simply doesn't even work out of the box..."
It works but it having some quirks :). For sure they will be solved in time as happened with Rigol 5K.
MXO4 has also some quirks, and is in top makers.
About Siglent capacitor problems, they at least, talked about the problem, and offered complete board exchange for free. Rigol does not say a word ...
Personally I am interested in buying HDO 1000, despite early problems. It is 12 bit scope at the price of a DMM ( Keysight 1282A) or less than Fluke 289 ...
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