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Should I buy a Rigol MSO5000?
TK:
I just received the DS1054Z... it is a nice scope and more responsive than the MSO5000 I tried a couple of weeks ago... In my opinion the MSO5000 is a downgrade in terms of display quality, UI responsiveness.
I still think that something fundamental changed at Rigol in the last couple of years... from being Rigol Technologies, now the name is Rigol xyz Technologies (I don't remember xyz, it is in the back label of the scope). Probably the original Rigol owners sold the company and now it is being managed by a private equity company that does only care for the money.
Martin72:
I think nearly the opposite about, after working with the 5000 for "so long" and everyday with the possibility to compare it with a DS1054Z ( we have 3 in the labs), siglent sds-1104x-e ( one), several lecroy models and two tektronix.
Display is weak, no doubt about it, but in my opinion the UI/ menue structure is the same - same complicated.
The menues of a waverunner ws 3024 was "heaven" against, so straight, so easy...
Beside of, the 5000 got much more powerful hardware, the screen ist full usable, menues can be hidden ( this is what I hate most on the ds1054, the permanent menue left and right) and, even it´s very dim, the benefit of a bigger Display - 7" wasn´t suitable anymore for an mid-40s old man like me.... ;)
Martin72:
By the way:
--- Quote ---The menues of a waverunner ws 3024 was "heaven" against, so straight, so easy...
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This model of lecroy got a bright, big Display, a hefty look and feel and some typical lecroy features....but it´s awful slow in it´s response and got some hard issues like totally frozen after pressing the find triggerlevel button or the missing of an free chooseable measure gate.
It got "countless" firmware updates so far, last from february this year, and still got these issues.
And it costs triple as a mso 5074....so much to say about a so called A-brand.
Actually, the rigol 5074 leave this one clearly behind in nearly all cases, except look and feel, display and integrated 50 ohm termination.
dietert1:
For those who don't know LeCroy i prepared an example measurement from a USB2 audio transmission. Then two zooms into two packets. Then two gated frequency measurements in the sync fields of the two packets (0101.. sequence gives 240 MHz). One measurement was taken with the 9354A i mentioned before.
The other one is with an 11 year old WR 64Xi which currently sells at a similar price as the 350 MHz version of the Rigol 5000.
Maybe someone can try to do it with a Rigol 5000.
Regards, Dieter
Mr Nutts:
--- Quote from: dietert1 on April 09, 2019, 09:56:07 pm ---For those who don't know LeCroy i prepared an example measurement from a USB2 audio transmission. Then two zooms into two packets. Then two gated frequency measurements in the sync fields of the two packets (0101.. sequence gives 240 MHz). One measurement was taken with the 9354A i mentioned before.
The other one is with an 11 year old WR 64Xi which currently sells at a similar price as the 350 MHz version of the Rigol 5000.
Maybe someone can try to do it with a Rigol 5000.
Regards, Dieter
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Be careful, the last guy who talked a lot about Lecroy has been banned :scared:
It's also his fault that I bought a Waveruner LT264 and a LT574 and I'm happy with them :) Although I now also have an Agilent DSO8064 which is my main scope mostly because it has so much memory (128M) and can decode I2C ;)
I think I paid $700 for the LT264 and around $1k for the LT574.
Durability should not be an issue, apparently they were manufactured in Japan for Lecroy. I've seen older Lecroy scopes with crt which had a plastic housing and they often look damaged. But these Waveruner LT scopes are solid like bricks ;)
And if something breaks then schematics are available ;)
I learned so much just by using them (I guess the explanations from the guy who talked me into them did help a bit), they have very powerful functions of which some are still beyond my grasp :)
The only thing I really miss is decoding but that's what I have the Agilent for ;)
The interface of the Lecroy scopes I have is different from the Tektronix scopes we had at college but it's pretty straight forward to use. Sometimes I mix up horizontal and vertical controls but that's it. And if I can operate these Lecroys then pretty much anyone should be able to do it ;)
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