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bdunham7:

--- Quote from: argile_tile on March 02, 2023, 12:37:41 pm ---Without the warranty it was too risky for me.

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The 5-year warranty from Tek wasn't enough?  The odds of it failing in the first decade are really low and the odds that Tek would renege on their warranty is even lower.  Unless they were acquired by Keysight, which seems unlikely at this point.
rsjsouza:
As others have said, repairability is not really a differentiation factor among modern equipment, thus one needs other criteria to make a decision. The sudden realization of the immense gap in important features highlighted in this thread probably caused the OP to have a change of heart.

At any rate, get one oscilloscope that meets your current needs and, if in the future you feel the need for something else, pivot and make a different decision then. Aspects such as resale value and sheer durability are too volatile over the lifespan of such products to add any deterministic weight to the decision. 
zrq:

--- Quote from: nctnico on March 02, 2023, 12:46:58 pm ---@argile_tile: you are way to worked up about warranty and repairability. In modern test equipment failures are extremely rare. There are not much parts in it and nothing runs really hot. And if something fails, it is usually power related which is easy to fix. Even without a schematic as power supply stuff is as generic as it gets.

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I would politely suggest otherwise. More or less modern test equipments do fail in irreparable ways. I heard some KS3446xA can have dying SOCs and no one in the world except KS can repair them. I also noticed there are a few users on this forum have dead Tektronix DMM4050/Fluke 8846A and even experts like TiN cannot repair some of them despite significant amount of posted work.

Of course, Chinese brands are very likely not going to be better in terms of this (except that for me, I can talk to a rep in my native language rather than English  ;)).
Fungus:

--- Quote from: zrq on March 02, 2023, 09:43:31 pm ---I would politely suggest otherwise. More or less modern test equipments do fail in irreparable ways.

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Of course, but higher integration (single PCB, three or four big chips) is much more reliable than a box full of interconnected PCBs with backplanes and dozens of smaller chips, many of them custom made for a particular device).

nctnico:

--- Quote from: zrq on March 02, 2023, 09:43:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 02, 2023, 12:46:58 pm ---@argile_tile: you are way to worked up about warranty and repairability. In modern test equipment failures are extremely rare. There are not much parts in it and nothing runs really hot. And if something fails, it is usually power related which is easy to fix. Even without a schematic as power supply stuff is as generic as it gets.

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I would politely suggest otherwise. More or less modern test equipments do fail in irreparable ways. I heard some KS3446xA can have dying SOCs and no one in the world except KS can repair them.

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Actually these can be fixed by replacing the chip which is available commercially. But there are always pieces of test equipment that use custom parts. It has been that way since the invention of the silicon chip but nowadays it looks like less custom parts are used (except in really high-end gear) and parts are being run at much lower temperatures. Overall test equipment has become massively more reliable. Don't get discouraged by a few exceptions that affect only a small portion of the total number of devices sold.
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