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james_s:

--- Quote from: nctnico on December 28, 2022, 06:19:50 pm ---I doubt you ever bought a piece of test equipment for serious use otherwise you'd known that Youtube is a far cry from a good source of information for test equipment. Youtube only helps to find out what is out there. Nothing more. And a teardown says absolutely ZERO about the useability of a piece of test equipment for a certain purpose.

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I can't speak for him, but I've bought several pieces of test equipment for serious use and as far as I can recall I only returned one once and that was because it was defective. In the rest of the cases I researched what I wanted, acquired one, and then learned how to use it for the task I wanted to accomplish. Have you seriously had to try out a handful of oscilloscopes in order to find one that worked for you? I've never had that problem, every scope I've ever owned does what a scope is supposed to do.
nctnico:

--- Quote from: james_s on December 28, 2022, 06:41:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 28, 2022, 06:19:50 pm ---I doubt you ever bought a piece of test equipment for serious use otherwise you'd known that Youtube is a far cry from a good source of information for test equipment. Youtube only helps to find out what is out there. Nothing more. And a teardown says absolutely ZERO about the useability of a piece of test equipment for a certain purpose.

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I can't speak for him, but I've bought several pieces of test equipment for serious use and as far as I can recall I only returned one once and that was because it was defective. In the rest of the cases I researched what I wanted, acquired one, and then learned how to use it for the task I wanted to accomplish. Have you seriously had to try out a handful of oscilloscopes in order to find one that worked for you? I've never had that problem, every scope I've ever owned does what a scope is supposed to do.

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I have returned several function generators that didn't do what they where supposed to do. In addition I have tested the lab PSU I have before buying it. Ditto for the function generator I ended up with. I don't buy test equipment without test driving it first.

Where it comes to oscilloscopes, I need things like protocol decoding to work well in order to do my job efficiently.
dorkshoei:

--- Quote from: nctnico on December 28, 2022, 06:57:19 pm ---I have returned several function generators that didn't do what they where supposed to do ...  I don't buy test equipment without test driving it first.

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You realize these are two mutually exclusive statements.   Maybe you meant "keep" instead of "buy".
BeBuLamar:
Actually long time ago before I am at a postion where I can manufacturers lend me instruments to evaluate it was back in 80's that test instruments like a DMM was something I had to buy sight unseen. There were no store front that sell them.
joeqsmith:
Looks like Siglent offers a 30day return policy.   So when I decide to buy one of these fancy new DSOs to replace my old relics, I can at least make sure the encoders work as they should. 
 
https://siglentna.com/service-and-support/return-policy/
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