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Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscopes - Questions/Comments? Let me know!
psient:
Hello all:
Please I ask you Rich, for my edification, why should I buy a R&S as a first scope? I am just beginning my work shop. I can't really understand them . . . yet . . . but Rigol is arguing to spend with them. I am new to electronics, old to the U.S. and have a lot of experience in being educated.
I just found this thread and though my story may not interest all the engineers here I respect and enjoy their posting intelligent back and forths. As to this post, I hope sensibilities extend back to their pre-teens when they started as I'm the geriatric version.
New here at over 65 I'm a non entitled-ist (I'm U.S. but not -not entitled in the vein gowdy, ryan, mr. turtle want to force). I'd like to thank you for your generous dedication in responding with such a genuine and authentic demeanor.
Dave Jones gets paid for eevblogging in part so I can ask because of him, thanks to him as well, the duck's guts!
I want to grow but am retired and, while ryan is trying to destroy my ilk, he has not succeeded yet. I still get my laborers small stipend to survive. Mind you I went from manual labor with 0 college to PhD in 7 years @ 44 years old (Uni California, not a paper mill but real science). Please help me understand entry to eevblog engineering with only an intense education in statistics and ethics. Sorry for the :bullshit: . . . not really :popcorn:
mikeselectricstuff:
--- Quote from: psient on May 13, 2017, 11:32:05 am ---Hello all:
Please I ask you Rich, for my edification, why should I buy a R&S as a first scope? I am just beginning my work shop. I can't really understand them . . . yet . . . but Rigol is arguing to spend with them. I am new to electronics, old to the U.S. and have a lot of experience in being educated.
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Unless money is no object and you really like nice shiny things with lots of bells & whistles you probably shouldn't.
As a beginner you'd be paying for features and performance you're unlikely to need for quite a while.
Something like The Rigol 1054Z, the new Siglent, or the Keysight DSOX1000 would do all you're likely to need for quite a while, and as & when you find them limiting, look to upgrade.
The only reason not to buy the R&S as a first scope is money. It will do everything you want to and more, and won't be any harder to use than a lower-end unit, so if the price is not an issue, fine.
Rich@RohdeScopesUSA:
--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on May 13, 2017, 11:55:43 am ---
--- Quote from: psient on May 13, 2017, 11:32:05 am ---Hello all:
Please I ask you Rich, for my edification, why should I buy a R&S as a first scope? I am just beginning my work shop. I can't really understand them . . . yet . . . but Rigol is arguing to spend with them. I am new to electronics, old to the U.S. and have a lot of experience in being educated.
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Unless money is no object and you really like nice shiny things with lots of bells & whistles you probably shouldn't.
As a beginner you'd be paying for features and performance you're unlikely to need for quite a while.
Something like The Rigol 1054Z, the new Siglent, or the Keysight DSOX1000 would do all you're likely to need for quite a while, and as & when you find them limiting, look to upgrade.
The only reason not to buy the R&S as a first scope is money. It will do everything you want to and more, and won't be any harder to use than a lower-end unit, so if the price is not an issue, fine.
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Can't disagree. :-+
-Rich
LaurentR:
--- Quote from: Rich@RohdeScopesUSA on May 13, 2017, 01:39:58 am ---
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Well, temp control may really be broken. I got this error this morning. Hasn't reappeared since. 19C ambient.
Corrected: Now happens every time I boot. UI is very slow / unresponsive. Maybe thermal throttling?
At this point, I have sent an email to R&S support.
Octane:
Hey Rich,
Just an idea/suggestion. Would it be possible to use one of the channels as an intensity input (also sometimes called z-input). This would be especially useful if one could use x-y mode (ch1 &ch2) and then use channel 3 as an intensity input.
As I said just a thought. Could be a nice feature.
BR,
Michael
P.S.: Any update on a new firmware?
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