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Ben23:
My apologies if this has already been mentioned, but I've skimmed several threads and couldn't find any mention of it, and it's not an easy one to search for.

I've just bought the DS1054Z, its software is up-to-date (00.04.05.SP2, or 00.04.05.02.03 in the expanded info view).

The bottom two vertical measures in the left sidebar last page are weird.
"AC.Vrms" does indeed turn on AC.Vrms, but the Help page brought up by that button is "Variance".

And then there's "3". What is that supposed to be? The Help for "3" says it's AC.Vrms, but what it actually turns on is Period, which isn't even a vertical measure! The icon suggests it should be some other sort of RMS measurement? Or should it be the missing "Variance"?

Also AC.Vrms and a bunch of the horizontal measures don't appear in "Measure All", but I guess they just have a loose definition of "All"...

RoGeorge:
Mine is one version behind, 00.04.05.02.02, and it doesn't have any icon on the 6th place.  First 4 icons are the same, as in your pics, the 5th is called 'Variance', the last place is empty.

What does the help function says about the 6th icon called "3", if you press 'Help' then '3'?

Ben23:

--- Quote from: RoGeorge on May 09, 2023, 04:09:55 pm ---Mine is one version behind, 00.04.05.02.02, and it doesn't have any icon on the 6th place.  First 4 icons are the same, as in your pics, the 5th is called 'Variance', the last place is empty.

--- End quote ---
Interesting.

--- Quote ---What does the help function says about the 6th icon called "3", if you press 'Help' then '3'?

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It gives the help for AC.Vrms.

Njk:
Yep. I confirm the "3" icon with the 02.03 version. Pressing on it results in "Period=" item appearance in the bottom. It's so innocent problem I was not sure it's specific to this version.

BTW, my progress in finding the difference is very limited. But from what I've found so far, I think that v.04.05.02.03 is a build dedicated to system stability improvement. With the previous versions, the best way to demonstrate frozen UI was to use FFT. With this version, it does not hang there. That does not mean any FFT defect is fixed. Instead of hanging, the FFT trace just disappears while the scope remains responsive. But after that, the whole math trace "channel" is lost, it's not possible to get a data from the scope (points data, screenshot, etc.), and who knows what else stopped working properly. The scope is not trusted any more and it needs to be power cycled anyway. I don't know what is better. Looks like they don't have access to the low-level FFT code. Perhaps it was received in the binary form with OS/SDK/BSP from Infineon or a third-party vendor. So they can't fix it but the attempt to control the damage is evident.

Overall, no news from them over long time. According to the press release, they recently went public. So new leadership, new vision, new priorities, a lot of empty positions in the local office. Add to this the international unrest, the covid scam, the ship shortage. Seems now they have something more interesting to do rather than just to make the things.

RoGeorge:
My DS1054z is used rather rare, but I don't recall any hangs with the firmware it has, 00.04.05.02.02.  Used FFT a couple of times, no hangs.  Maybe downgrade back to 00.04.05.02.02 if you find 00.04.05.02.03 to be faultier.

For now, I wouldn't upgrade to 00.04.05.02.03, thanks for the warning.

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