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Siglent SDS1000X-HD - Bugs and "features" thread.

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zike:
Today I got an SDS1204X HD (fw version 1.1.3.8  ) and also a SAG1021I arb. Appreciate any guidance on a few puzzles (yes, I did RTFM):

1. Product page says you need a separate license to enable the wavegen, in addition to buying the hardware. It works out of the box; is this a ‘temporary’ license that evaporates? Like to know up front if they are going to brick it and soak me for more $ after the return window lapses. 

2. Any graceful way to abort a Bode plot during the sweep? Unresponsive while sweeping, and if you selected “Continuous” it loops indefinitely. Only thing I figured out is to fully exit Bode mode altogether, at which point it forgets the setup and reverts to (useless) default sweep parameters.  Hope I’m missing something simple here.

3. Which brings up,  is it possible to save the Bode configuration, or at least have it come up in the last configuration used?  Can any instrument states/setups be saved/recalled?

4. FFT is pretty good, but again, a way to save/recall setups (and even apply them to a new channel) would be helpful. I can do FFT’s on two channels at once, but the display does very stupid things if I show them together, unless I manually enter all possible settings exactly the same for each channel.

Incidentally, the scope should have plenty of grunt to do 2-channel cross spectrum, coherence and Fourier frequency response, and evidently bit depth and front end noise to make them count; is that too much to ask?

5. Somehow I imagined they’d send me compatible 10x probes with a 200MHz scope advertised to have auto probe detect. The PP215 probes they sent are switchable 1x/10x toys with no signaling pin. Very disappointing.  I had to dig out some ancient Tek P6106’s from the 1970s.  (Yes, probe detect does work, with _real_ probes.)

Happy for any wisdom you all can share. Don't get me wrong, I'm very pleased so far; a far cry from my last experience with Siglent. One day in, this appears to be an excellent tool.  Thus, worth making better.

Cheers,

zike

tautech:

--- Quote from: zike on December 15, 2024, 12:54:57 am ---Today I got an SDS1204X HD (fw version 1.1.3.8  ) and also a SAG1021I arb. Appreciate any guidance on a few puzzles (yes, I did RTFM):

1. Product page says you need a separate license to enable the wavegen, in addition to buying the hardware. It works out of the box; is this a ‘temporary’ license that evaporates? Like to know up front if they are going to brick it and soak me for more $ after the return window lapses. 
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The need for FG and LA option licensing was deleted in the latest FW.


--- Quote ---2. Any graceful way to abort a Bode plot during the sweep? Unresponsive while sweeping, and if you selected “Continuous” it loops indefinitely. Only thing I figured out is to fully exit Bode mode altogether, at which point it forgets the setup and reverts to (useless) default sweep parameters.  Hope I’m missing something simple here.
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Intuitively Run/Stop should cease the sweep...not sure so check.
IIRC in one of the Bode plot menus you can also stop the sweep.

--- Quote ---3. Which brings up,  is it possible to save the Bode configuration, or at least have it come up in the last configuration used?  Can any instrument states/setups be saved/recalled?
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Utility>Save/Recall menu allows for Setups to be saved, IIRC 5-10 internally for Recall and infinite when saved externally.


--- Quote ---5. Somehow I imagined they’d send me compatible 10x probes with a 200MHz scope advertised to have auto probe detect. The PP215 probes they sent are switchable 1x/10x toys with no signaling pin. Very disappointing.  I had to dig out some ancient Tek P6106’s from the 1970s.  (Yes, probe detect does work, with _real_ probes.)
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Yup disappoints me 2 but is the same for low BW SDS2000X Plus models also, only PP215 is supplied.

KungFuJosh:

--- Quote from: zike on December 15, 2024, 12:54:57 am ---5. Somehow I imagined they’d send me compatible 10x probes with a 200MHz scope advertised to have auto probe detect. The PP215 probes they sent are switchable 1x/10x toys with no signaling pin. Very disappointing.  I had to dig out some ancient Tek P6106’s from the 1970s.  (Yes, probe detect does work, with _real_ probes.)

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If you want them to include better probes, they'll raise the price. You're better off getting some nice probemaster.com probes.

zike:

--- Quote from: tautech on December 15, 2024, 01:05:57 am ---
--- Quote ---3. Which brings up,  is it possible to save the Bode configuration, or at least have it come up in the last configuration used?  Can any instrument states/setups be saved/recalled?
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Utility>Save/Recall menu allows for Setups to be saved, IIRC 5-10 internally for Recall and infinite when saved externally.

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Thanks for this guidance.  I played with it a bit more and don't find a good way, perhaps I'm looking in the wrong place. It seems bode setup gets forgotten and reset to defaults once you navigate away to access the Save/Recall function. Also,  it appears the saved Setups only include channel, timebase and trigger settings; recalling a Setup file did not appear to restore (or over-write) any of the math functions I had configured, for example.

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