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dorkshoei:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on December 28, 2022, 10:29:32 pm ---Looks like Siglent offers a 30day return policy.   

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If you read the terms, buyer is responsible for return shipping.    I sense in this scenario a lack of such responsibility is desired :-)
 

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: dorkshoei on December 28, 2022, 10:31:26 pm ---
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on December 28, 2022, 10:29:32 pm ---Looks like Siglent offers a 30day return policy.   

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If you read the terms, buyer is responsible for return shipping.    I sense in this scenario a lack of such responsibility is desired :-)

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Correct and also note that it states direct purchases only.  Shipping wouldn't be a major concern for me.   More that there's no restock fee.   For a home hobby trial for the $58nn scope tautech mentions, it may be the best solution. 

Now, which model to get.   I may have to start one of those "help me pick my first modern DSO" threads. 

tautech:

--- Quote from: joeqsmith on December 28, 2022, 10:48:09 pm --- For a home hobby trial for the $58nn scope tautech mentions, it may be the best solution. 
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:-//

--- Quote ---I may have to start one of those "help me pick my first modern DSO" threads.
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So you're so bored you need some entertainment do you ?
Run outta DMM's to nuke ?

jasonRF:

--- Quote from: nctnico on December 28, 2022, 06:19:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: dorkshoei on December 28, 2022, 06:17:16 pm ---I do agree that the budget sellers do a poor job of describing their products on Amazon.    I don't think Siglent would however fall into this category plus as already said,  there is Youtube (and EEVBlog) where you can watch detailed product tear-down and eval videos.   

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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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Yup.  For serious work even the detailed documentation from places like Agilent sometimes need some explaining by their applications engineers.  And when you buy expensive gear for serious work, you get those conversations with the engineers as well as other support.  I have even had vendor engineers show up at my company and reprogram the FPGA inside a piece of equipment to make it do what we wanted at no extra charge.  No return required!  I am guessing that when you need to buy budget gear for serious work that you end up with more headaches and returns.  I don't see any way around this. 

jason

joeqsmith:

--- Quote from: tautech on December 28, 2022, 11:05:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: joeqsmith on December 28, 2022, 10:48:09 pm --- For a home hobby trial for the $58nn scope tautech mentions, it may be the best solution. 
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:-//

--- Quote ---I may have to start one of those "help me pick my first modern DSO" threads.
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So you're so bored you need some entertainment do you ?
Run outta DMM's to nuke ?

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nn = two place variable amount.    See attached for your OP that I referred to. 

On the meter front, all was fine until viewers wanted to see that high end Keysight.  Things went downhill fast for it.   We kinda knew when they handed one over to defpoms channel to do a review at the same time, it was all about damage control.  Such a contrast and not at all what I was expecting from the Keysight brand.  Certainly not at that price point.       

Based on several of your comments, I'm interested in seeing how a brand new Siglent compares with my used repaired vintage DSOs.  I've never damaged any of my scopes from normal use so no stress testing  but I do expect the encoders to work.  The 30 return policy should be more than enough time to compare them.    I assume with your mentioning hacking them,  it doesn't effect the return policy. 


--- Quote from: tautech on December 20, 2022, 06:37:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: BillyO on December 20, 2022, 03:14:51 pm ---Yeah, even the low cost 1GHz scopes are still ~$7K+. 

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Correct, officially.  ;)
In reality you can get the same HW in a 500 MHz version for $ 5890 and hack it.
I had one for several years until a customer wanted it earlier this year.

But with still a few days of 2022 left you can get the 500 MHz model on promotion with a free BW upgrade to 1 GHz.

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