I went for the UK siglent distributor - https://siglent.co.uk/product/siglent-sds1104x-e-super-phosphor-oscilloscope/ which is Telonic (hence the Siglent and Telonic sites look identical). I know that it's not an early revision hardware frontend and that was confirmed on receiving it. Firmware is easily updated and well supported.
Hi,
@Ray Waters: At the almost same price point of the EDUX1052G You can have the SDS1104X-E plus the associate function generator SDG1032X.
That combo already is in a different, a higher class than the KS imho.
Two more channels, up to 4x bandwidth, less input stage noise, vastly more memory, and Bode II already included.
Both devices can easily be ´freed´ for higher bandwidths and considerably more functionality, advancing even further ahead of the KS.
Do KS really dare to call their scope a Digital Storage Oscilloscope? Where did they put the the storage memory? 200kB?? Come on man, that´s close to nil.
Just calculate the shortness of a signal that can be sampled at 1Gs/s sampling frequency with only a few hundred kB of memory available!
100kB are just sufficient to record 0.1ms, on one active channel that is!
Now think about zooming in on a signal by reducing the time base ... oh wait, You can see the signal curve becoming distorted because the scope just ran out of memory
Of course if You don´t implement a capable enough hardware that can shuffle around the enormous amount of data involved with large memory the responsiveness (ie, waveform capture rate) drops.
With only two channels and its vanishingly small memory the KS should at least capture alot faster than the Siglent with its 4 channels and 140x(!) memory.
Afaik this is not the case. Draw Your own conclusions.
jauu
Calvin
@Ray Waters: At the almost same price point of the EDUX1052G You can have the SDS1104X-E plus the associate function generator SDG1032X.
That combo already is in a different, a higher class than the KS imho.
Two more channels, up to 4x bandwidth, less input stage noise, vastly more memory, and Bode II already included.
Both devices can easily be ´freed´ for higher bandwidths and considerably more functionality, advancing even further ahead of the KS.
Do KS really dare to call their scope a Digital Storage Oscilloscope? Where did they put the the storage memory? 200kB?? Come on man, that´s close to nil.
Just calculate the shortness of a signal that can be sampled at 1Gs/s sampling frequency with only a few hundred kB of memory available!
100kB are just sufficient to record 0.1ms, on one active channel that is!
Now think about zooming in on a signal by reducing the time base ... oh wait, You can see the signal curve becoming distorted because the scope just ran out of memory
Of course if You don´t implement a capable enough hardware that can shuffle around the enormous amount of data involved with large memory the responsiveness (ie, waveform capture rate) drops.
With only two channels and its vanishingly small memory the KS should at least capture alot faster than the Siglent with its 4 channels and 140x(!) memory.
Afaik this is not the case. Draw Your own conclusions.
jauu
Calvin
I have an old analogue scope I bought off ebay many years ago.
Its only 15MHz but does most of what I want.
Its a bit slow for some of the digital work I do.
I use a cheapie USB PC scope for slower digital work.
It only works up to 1MHz but captures model railway DCC data just fine which is all I want it for.
Its only 15MHz but does most of what I want.
Its a bit slow for some of the digital work I do.
I use a cheapie USB PC scope for slower digital work.
It only works up to 1MHz but captures model railway DCC data just fine which is all I want it for.