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Mr.CRC
- Jan 1, 1970
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Hi:
I'm going to spend the next three years of my allowance on a DSOX3024A
200MHz 4-ch variety and 33522A dual channel 30MHz arb. for home use
(sorry John Larkin, I just prefer an easy front panel user interface).
The 33522A I found a whole bunch of bugs in at work, but I think the new
firmware update will fix them. I have a EE intern starting Monday and
his first job will be to observe all the bugs that I described in a long
bitch email to Agilent, and then install the new firmware and see how
much better it gets.
At work I recently acquired a 70MHz 4-ch DSOX2004A variety which will be
used as a "strip chart recorder" to look at the control signals of a
Nd:YAG laser injection seeder.
And a 350MHz 4-ch+16 MSOX3034A for my electronics lab main scope, to
replace the older 6000 series MSO that I used to use.
I've only played with the new scopes a little bit, since my office where
I do most work has a 500MHz MSO7054B, which I'm very happy with.
I also keep a LeCroy 1GHz thingy with kick-butt data analysis capabilities.
My least favorite scope is the Tek MSO4000. Horribly slow with deep
memory turned on. You get conditioned by the Agilent scopes to expect
multi-gazillion waveform updates per sec., so whenever I move to the Tek
it really takes me by surprise.
For my hobby work 9 years ago I bought a 100MHz 4-ch Tek TDS3014 at
about $4400 with a slight discount for being a hobbyist. That had only
10kpts sample memory and can do about 3600 waveforms/s.
Now with the Agilent I will get 200MHz and 2Mpts memory, plus simply
ridiculous 1 million updates/s, for $800 less than the Tek cost 9 years
ago. Plus the option to later upgrade to 4Mpts, add logic channels and
a bunch of trigger/decoder applications, and upgrade even bandwidth!
Thank goodness for capitalism!
I have developed a close relationship with Agilent over the years.
Recently the marketing/development manager for the 3000X line and one of
the firmware engineers of this scope have been taking my input on how to
enhance the statistics and data analysis capabilities.
I have been very happy with their level of willingness to listen to me
(though buying a lot of gear probably helps). I expect that the same
would be possible with Tek, but since I'm fading out on my use of Tek, I
might never find out.
I'm going to spend the next three years of my allowance on a DSOX3024A
200MHz 4-ch variety and 33522A dual channel 30MHz arb. for home use
(sorry John Larkin, I just prefer an easy front panel user interface).
The 33522A I found a whole bunch of bugs in at work, but I think the new
firmware update will fix them. I have a EE intern starting Monday and
his first job will be to observe all the bugs that I described in a long
bitch email to Agilent, and then install the new firmware and see how
much better it gets.
At work I recently acquired a 70MHz 4-ch DSOX2004A variety which will be
used as a "strip chart recorder" to look at the control signals of a
Nd:YAG laser injection seeder.
And a 350MHz 4-ch+16 MSOX3034A for my electronics lab main scope, to
replace the older 6000 series MSO that I used to use.
I've only played with the new scopes a little bit, since my office where
I do most work has a 500MHz MSO7054B, which I'm very happy with.
I also keep a LeCroy 1GHz thingy with kick-butt data analysis capabilities.
My least favorite scope is the Tek MSO4000. Horribly slow with deep
memory turned on. You get conditioned by the Agilent scopes to expect
multi-gazillion waveform updates per sec., so whenever I move to the Tek
it really takes me by surprise.
For my hobby work 9 years ago I bought a 100MHz 4-ch Tek TDS3014 at
about $4400 with a slight discount for being a hobbyist. That had only
10kpts sample memory and can do about 3600 waveforms/s.
Now with the Agilent I will get 200MHz and 2Mpts memory, plus simply
ridiculous 1 million updates/s, for $800 less than the Tek cost 9 years
ago. Plus the option to later upgrade to 4Mpts, add logic channels and
a bunch of trigger/decoder applications, and upgrade even bandwidth!
Thank goodness for capitalism!
I have developed a close relationship with Agilent over the years.
Recently the marketing/development manager for the 3000X line and one of
the firmware engineers of this scope have been taking my input on how to
enhance the statistics and data analysis capabilities.
I have been very happy with their level of willingness to listen to me
(though buying a lot of gear probably helps). I expect that the same
would be possible with Tek, but since I'm fading out on my use of Tek, I
might never find out.