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SPD3303X-E another question regarding binding posts.
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Electroplated:
Morning mawyatt,

Wish my plugs that look similar needed a significant tug, well they do on the single Siglent and on some junk psu that I use for my hobby drill and water pump and they are as tight as a nats wotsit when plugged into my home brew psu !

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Electroplated:
Morning tautech,

The serial on my SPD3303X-E is SPD3XIEC6R0xxx, hardware version 3. the only other thing I noticed is if I look through the sides with a light the mains switch harness appears to be tied up as it seems to loop down into the switch pcb.

Mine was supplied with a set of plug leads that fit, but are still easy to pull out, again its the negative terminals that seem worst effected with channel one being the worst with a lot of play, wiggle wiggle and its out, as for the plug, that as well  ;D, if I plug those supplied leads in to anything with a binding post, they fit tight, fit into  HIRSCHMANN binding posts and they are hard to pull out, so the supplied ones seem fine to me.

I don't have retractable ones that would fit because not enough pin is exposed to get to the magic 20mm, worked that out by reading other posts here and measuring what I have. I did originally think my testing was flawed because some of the leads had wear but I have some unused BUELA 30 K that are still loose, I don't use them as they are blue and yellow, I use red, black and green on power supplies to stop my feeble aging mind becoming confused  :)

Just a quick edit to my reply, I've taken on board what you say about the binding posts being different due to the SPD3303X-E being used in serial or parallel mode, probably a similar reason to why the spacing is different to prevent using those infernal twin plug type adapters, especially the junk bnc type.

The only other thing to note is mine never had the peel off screen sticker on it but not sure if they are fitted or it was removed during a pre-delivery check, on the other hand, I've been using a Siglent scope for 6 years and only removed the screen sticker last week and spent ages removing the sticky that was left behind, one of those things I kept meaning to do but never did until the screen seemed dim :-)

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tautech:

--- Quote from: Electroplated on August 08, 2022, 05:58:58 am ---Morning tautech,

The serial on my SPD3303X-E is SPD3XIEC6R0xxx, hardware version 3. the only other thing I noticed is if I look through the sides with a light the mains switch harness appears to be tied up as it seems to loop down into the switch pcb.

Mine was supplied with a set of plug leads that fit, but are still easy to pull out, again its the negative terminals that seem worst effected with channel one being the worst with a lot of play, wiggle wiggle and its out, as for the plug, that as well  ;D, if I plug those supplied leads in to anything with a binding post, they fit tight, fit into  HIRSCHMANN binding posts and they are hard to pull out, so the supplied ones seem fine to me.
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Evening EP.  ;)

Ok you certainly have an issue with those banana sockets as they should hold any modern plug just fine so yes, as mawyatt says it needs go back as it's not fit for purpose.


--- Quote ---The only other thing to note is mine never had the peel off screen sticker on it but not sure if they are fitted or it was removed during a pre-delivery check, on the other hand, I've been using a Siglent scope for 6 years and only removed the screen sticker last week and spent ages removing the sticky that was left behind, one of those things I kept meaning to do but never did until the screen seemed dim  :-)
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Only the latest touch display Siglent devices come with protector overlays these days but there is the odd exception like the latest SHS series.
Electroplated:
Hi tautec,

Nice to know the overlays are not fitted these days, bit less plastic to dispose of !

I'm going to squeak, I mean speak to Siglent or its handling company in a hour or so, thing is both websites state I should pay return carriage for under warranty repairs so I may need to bitch about that if it needs to go back, by nature I am a tight wad,  if given a preference I would try new posts and fit them myself as it saves a lot of faffing about, getting Siglent to agree may be not easy, I understand why they may refuse that but can only ask.

All that said, I found a use for the timer, never used a time but I designed a simple toggle switch that controls a relay, I wanted to test the thing with rapid on/ off cycles, did the job  :)

Will post later about how I get on, thanks for all the information and testing the plugs I saw in the pictures, very much appreciated.

Another quick edit, spoke to the handling company for Siglent UK and am waiting for Siglent to respond to them, I mentioned swapping the posts but we will see, don't matter what they decide, I'll end up with one of these either way.

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tautech:
I'm very interested in the outcome as we get a new shipment of these PSU's in the next week or 2 after not having had any for a while and if they have loose banana plug sockets.......I won't be pleased.
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