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| nixxon:
Could anyone tell us all how the Lecroy firmware compares to the Siglent firmware? I the user interface improved a lot? Does it look nice? More logical or user friendly buttons operation? |
| Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: nixxon on March 21, 2013, 07:40:20 pm ---You are bold flashing the Siglent with the Lecroy firmware. If you didn't mind bricking the Siglent, I guess it's worth taking the risk, just to find out if the hack works. --- End quote --- Well, the SDG1000 is a toy, as a reliable tool it's really crap. The only thing it's really good at is to create a jittery signal, which is nice for playing around with the jitter analysis tools of my scope, but that's about it. The money I pad for the SDG1020 was not money well spent. So even if I had 'bricked' the damn thing this would not have been a huge loss (and I'm sure even then it could be revived by removing the flash and flashing it externally). So there was nothing bold in what I did. --- Quote ---Could anyone please try reverting to Siglent firmware and see if it works & restores everything to normal, including counter and model number identity crisis? --- End quote --- I did flash the LeCroy and back to the Siglent firmware multiple times today, no problem. The reason I went back to the Siglent firmware is that I wanted to try something with the useless counter function that the LeCroy doesn't have. |
| Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: nixxon on March 21, 2013, 07:44:44 pm ---Could anyone tell us all how the Lecroy firmware compares to the Siglent firmware? I the user interface improved a lot? Does it look nice? More logical or user friendly buttons operation? --- End quote --- It's essentially the same. The LeCroy firmware has a different UI color set (IMHO a much nicer one than the one of the Siglent firmware), but it lacks the counter (which is utterly useless anyways so I guess LeCroy didn't want it in their firmware). And the left output which is labelled 'CH2/Cnt' on the Siglent becomes Ch1 and the right output becomes Ch2, which is much more logical. The biggest benefit of the LeCroy firmware however is that it can simply be downloaded from their website, while for the Siglent firmware you have to beg their 'support' for the file. I remember that someone in this forum has once claimed that this is because Siglent wants to be sure that the firmware is for the correct hardware version but that is bollocks (there's only one firmware set for all SDG1000). |
| Wuerstchenhund:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 20, 2013, 04:31:01 pm ---I've received my SDG1010 today and the firmware from Lecroy seems to work fine. --- End quote --- Since you have a SDG1010 (the 10Mhz version) for which a WaveStation equivalent (WaveStation 2012) exists, can you please go to Utilities -> EditInfo (it's on page 2) and check what is listed as model no? Mine says nothing but then I have a SDG1020 for which no WaveStation equivalent exists. |
| nctnico:
Mine thinks its a Wavestation 2012. |
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