Ridiculous Prices

[lgbeno]

Pretty sweet scope 33GHz is crazy.  We used a similar 12GHz one to demodulate a 528MHz wide UWB signal with 8GHz center freq.  There we didn't use a fancy probe, just piped RF into the scope.


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[Salas]

Because they only sell dozens or maybe hundreds of them. Those who need it don't care what it costs.

Sounds exactly like the case of high-end turntable arms.

[Stonent]

Because they only sell dozens or maybe hundreds of them. Those who need it don't care what it costs.

Sounds exactly like the case of high-end turntable arms.

Actually a turntable arm might be perfect for mounting a probe vertically for placing on a test point.

[jpb]

If you're selling expensive instruments then extras are down in the price noise and you charge for the hassle rather than the thing itself. I remember being slightly shocked that the  company I worked for sold RS232 to GPIB convertors for a mark up of at least 4x the cost of buying them retail. The point was we needed to sell them at such a level to make it worthwhile and customers spending 10s of k$ would regard something under $1k as too minor to be worth haggling over or even thinking about.

It is like when NASA pay 10s of k$ for a cup-holder on a space shuttle (or is that a myth?)

[echen1024]

Probably just better used as a bargaining chip. "Sir, may I have 2k off this Infiniium 90000Q?"
"No, but I'll give you 2 probe holders and  pack of solder down probes FREE!"
"*gasp* That's a great deal! Sure!"

[G7PSK]

You could buy a house and a car for the price of one of those scopes and probes, but you are paying for the fairy dust with probes as I have just found out, I bought an Agilent 150MHZ probe on ebay and am having the devil of a job to match it to my scope (Iwatsu 40MHZ @25pf) the agilent probe is only 15pf, so far I have it right at 1KHZ but at 1MHZ its shit.

[alm]

So how is it the fault of the probe that you used it on a scope from a different manufacturer and failed to check the compensation range? It's not like Agilent hides the compensation range. A probe with a larger compensation range would have inferior performance (higher circuit loading) on the scopes it was designed for.

[G7PSK]

Its not the probes fault, I am trying to make the probe match by changing the compensation network in the BNC, and its not as straightforward as I had hoped and I am having to try different capacitors as none of the equipment I have will actually measure capacitance that low. I am also pointing out tha I understand why this stuff can be so expensive due to a very little personal experience.