[HH] portable oscilloscope

Tom Metro tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com
Tue May 1 22:17:21 EDT 2012


Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> The 50MHz Rigol can, I hear, be made into a 100 MHz with a firmware
> hack.

Neat. Price difference isn't all that great - $350 vs. $400:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&biw=1121&bih=696&q=Rigol+50mhz&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=9899470824037813212&sa=X&ei=_pegT8XiG8Xe0QGFuMmiCQ&ved=0CFYQ8wIwAA

I hate it when hardware manufacturers cripple their products through
software. At least here they're only charging a $50 (~15%) premium to
enable double the bandwidth.


> ...they're decent scopes.

Good to know. I'll keep it on my wish list. :-)

 -Tom





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