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owon budget scope rebadges and firmware updates - is it a dealbreaker?

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kokodin:
Hello
I been recently contemplating my old scope replacment, and i came across some good deals for rebadged Owon scopes, both 2 and 4 channel versions of sds1000 series. The thing is they smell kind of custom sauce, at least the 4 channel variant because it exists in 100mhz and 150mhz (and they are the same price) there is also a rebadge of 2 chanel one "new from store expostion" for half regular price. From my knowledge Owon never made 4 channel one in any bandwidth other than 100mhz under theyre own brand though. Hanmatek 2 channel is even wierder , bandwidth is 110mhz.

So the question is, does buying rebadged owon makes me locked to whatever firmware version that is on the device at the moment? Or does rebadged owons accept regular mainline firmware for the scopes they are rebadged from? Does the custom sauce bandwidth model downgrade to 100mhz or is it unlikely because  it may just have some better components baked into input stage.

I wouldn't bother with those but they are basically in chinese prices in local stores after tax and import fees already aded

So what do you think? Did anyone tryed firmware updates on cdek, vevor, hanmatek or any other rebadged owon product?

coromonadalix:
i would say   if they get fw updates or not

if not  stay away

my 2 cents

RogerG:
Owon and FW updates will never be friends.
Don't rely on updates, you'll wait forever.

J-R:
If you just need a cheap scope to look at a trace, then you could make the case that there are plenty of options worse than Owon (Lilliput).  However, a better choice would be Rigol or Siglent along with some liberation.

kokodin:
Thanks i kind of figured this much after i was enlighten by first reply, and checked owon webpage for firmware downloads for sds1000 series. And there was a category for it but noting inside.

i know the good brands but i kind of need a scope once every blue moon and so far analog single channel from the 70's was enough, but i kind of want single shot trigger.

And now it was owon 4 channel sds1104 clone or hantek dso2d10. Because they were the same price and at my limit of how much i want to spend on a thing i will need once a year, or owon sds1102 clone  if i want to skimp even more. I watched many reviews of the cheap scopes over last few days and for some reason nobody mentioned firmware in owon case, and they kind of always just worked. Both measuring stuff and just displaying waveforms. While hantek was buggy. But most of the rewievs was from 2-3 years ago, so after reading some more it seems that hantek really do iron bugs out with time in firmware updates, so i was curious about owon and i kind of get my answer.

Since i am not going to risk buying that directly from china, because i kind of don't want to pay import fees and taxes afterward. i am kind of limied to few options from local distribution where all that was already included in the purchase price. Featurewise those 3 made the most sense, for rigol, sigilent or even uni-t i would have to pay extra.

tanks or replies i really apriciate it

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