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Up to 5-7,000 euros are not really unaffordable for a more powerful amateur or a very small company.
So an SDS3000X HD would be just the thing.
Even though Dave doesn't always go into as much detail as we'd like, the work he does is VERY time consuming and the equipment he has access to for reviews is not available to all of us.
And the style he has covers a wide range of users. From beginners to advanced anyone can find useful and very useful information.
I don't like to order and then return the equipment. I prefer to have as much information as possible from the start.
And I wouldn't like to receive equipment already used as new.
If I don't like it, I'll sell it as second hand afterwards.
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Seems fair to me for a mail-order purchase which you can't check out hands-on before buying. Also, I used my existing probes and mains cable for testing, not even unpacking the ones shipped with the scope, so the returned unit was "as new".
I do not agree at all with this "practice", if planned, as in your case, it is unfair and is to the detriment of others, seller and customers that eventually will receive your "tested" device later.
A review and a teardown might convince.
Martin isn't about to void his warranty! He needs the warranty intact when he sells the scope a year from now when the opportunity arises for him to get an 8GHz SDS7000A in exchange for $500 and a high-five.
Martin isn't about to void his warranty! He needs the warranty intact when he sells the scope a year from now when the opportunity arises for him to get an 8GHz SDS7000A in exchange for $500 and a high-five.
Will 4 GHz do for a start?
A review and a teardown might convince.
That's not going to come from Dave, especially not for Siglent gear. He seems to have a problem with Siglent, and every time he does a video he has to say "wow, none of the famous Siglent rust!" He also doesn't tend to learn the scopes at all. Like spending at least 10 minutes figuring out 'what's wrong with the scope,' and why it was maxed out at 100MHz...and eventually figured out he was in 10 bit mode on the SDS2000X+. He didn't RTFM.
If you want in-depth reviews like Performa01's, then you need Performa01 to do it. Nobody has done anything on the level of what he did for the 800X HD.
Don't get me wrong, I usually enjoy Dave's videos, but they really are just entertainment. Especially now that he's focused on spreading further on social media. I hope he does justice to the two scopes he recently received from Siglent.
Don't get me wrong, I usually enjoy Dave's videos, but they really are just entertainment. Especially now that he's focused on spreading further on social media. I hope he does justice to the two scopes he recently received from Siglent.
A review and a teardown might convince.
That's not going to come from Dave, especially not for Siglent gear. He seems to have a problem with Siglent, and every time he does a video he has to say "wow, none of the famous Siglent rust!" He also doesn't tend to learn the scopes at all. Like spending at least 10 minutes figuring out 'what's wrong with the scope,' and why it was maxed out at 100MHz...and eventually figured out he was in 10 bit mode on the SDS2000X+. He didn't RTFM.
If you want in-depth reviews like Performa01's, then you need Performa01 to do it. Nobody has done anything on the level of what he did for the 800X HD.
Don't get me wrong, I usually enjoy Dave's videos, but they really are just entertainment. Especially now that he's focused on spreading further on social media. I hope he does justice to the two scopes he recently received from Siglent.
Perform01's offering could become a textbook!
A user manual written by Perform01 would be the best possible user manual.
QuoteSame with the SDS3000. Unless it's significantly more powerful, faster than the SDS2000X HD, I have the same problem.Double the memory, double the sample rate, double the bandwidth...
The 3000 series can then cost more.
Whereby the "significantly faster" would still have to be defined in terms of what is meant by this.
One second of acquisition time, for example, remains one second, even with the most expensive scopes in the world.
I don't need a lot of memory, bandwidth or sampling rate.
But I would like it to be fast when running math functions, FFT, Bode, etc.
How is the SDS3000 vs SDS2000X HD in this respect?
Of course! But he just got the 3000X HD, so you gotta let him play with it for a year before he gets bored, and the 8GHz will be out by then. 😉
I would have to lie if I said I wasn't interested in the SDS7000A.
At work, I'm used to working with larger scopes, so a PC-based scope naturally has its appeal for private use.
But you have to be realistic.
Around 20000€ for a 3Ghz scope, if I bought that, nobody in my immediate environment would love me anymore.
24h later.....
Unpacked, more pictures will follow in the days to come.
The fact that the display foil is not present and neither are the front dust caps is not a problem, but it was different with the 2104XHD.
As it turned out today, I wouldn't have been able to get one either, despite ordering over 3 months ago.
They sent me their own demonstration device by mistake (hence the missing display foil and dust caps), but I can keep it until a new one is actually sent out.
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The latter.
If you only have one of them in the house and it's gone, you'll probably notice it sooner.
I have been wondering whether Performa01 might have had a hand in some parts of the SDS800X HD manual (and prior manuals for the same platform). There are some chapters which are a touch above the rest -- say the FFT chapter, and some paragraphs in the Math/Filter section.
Anybody able to offer insights? Just curious...