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oscilloscope recommendation for hobby use
skander36:
"People with knobs get to choose."
Yeah this was the ideea: don't go from an old Tek full of knobs and switches to a full touch UI.
Fungus:
--- Quote from: skander36 on June 22, 2023, 08:36:47 am ---"People with knobs get to choose."
Yeah this was the ideea: don't go from an old Tek full of knobs and switches to a full touch UI.
--- End quote ---
I think the lack of knobs/buttons was scaring people off. I know it made me nervous when choosing. After using it for a while I could probably remove half the buttons and a couple of the knobs with no loss at all.
I have to wonder about the wisdom of making their new large screen models knobless. They'll be usable without them, but... :-//
nctnico:
--- Quote from: Fungus on June 22, 2023, 09:05:21 am ---
--- Quote from: skander36 on June 22, 2023, 08:36:47 am ---"People with knobs get to choose."
Yeah this was the ideea: don't go from an old Tek full of knobs and switches to a full touch UI.
--- End quote ---
I think the lack of knobs/buttons was scaring people off. I know it made me nervous when choosing. After using it for a while I could probably remove half the buttons and a couple of the knobs with no loss at all.
I have to wonder about the wisdom of making their new large screen models knobless. They'll be usable without them, but... :-//
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Probably it is mostly the 'nervous' part. I have a higher end function generator from Tektronix with a real touchscreen UI and the only knobs I use are the power switch, the rotary dial (rarely though) and channel 1 & 2 enable buttons. The latter mainly due to the fact that these don't have easely reachable touchscreen equivalents. For the rest, the touchscreen is just easier.
skander36:
I am a promoter of a modern UI including touch. Wherever I have worked I have encouraged and favoured those type of UI, but this scope make me to think about his perception to the user. When I had STC1152 I did not realized the problem. Having knobs on side was handy.
Also as Fungus said, vertical position of the touchscreen is not very handy for pinch&zoom gesture for ex. and this apply to all scopes with touch UI.
But we are slipped to touch UI discussions and @Aurgelme maybe is not interested about. Maybe he just want to wake our interest on new Rigol scopes (HDO800 & 900) ... who knows :)
Fungus:
--- Quote from: skander36 on June 22, 2023, 10:07:50 am ---But we are slipped to touch UI discussions and @Aurgelme maybe is not interested about. Maybe he just want to wake our interest on new Rigol scopes (HDO800 & 900) ... who knows :)
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Have I mentioned that Micsigs can browse the EEVBLOG forums, view PDFs, watch Youtube, play back videos from USB sticks... :)
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