Conner, You can flash these with the LeCroy Wavestation firmware if you prefer. No added features (you lose the Siglent counter) but the GUI is apparently a bit nicer (colors, etc) and it swaps Ch1 & Ch2 (Ch1 to the left). Anyway, there's a thread about it at EEVBlog (Search there for "SDG1000 firmware updates") - Mark
This one is a lot cleaner than the DSO breakdown I saw. They had piggy backed SMD resistors hand soldered. They melted the case on a relay. Lots of flux all around the board. This one is wave soldered and clean. Much nicer. Thanks for the show and tell.
Generating any old waveform and accurately generating a precise waveform with tight tolerances are two different things entirely. Remember this is test equipment, where accuracy is expected and is the reason you don't see any 555 timers in here :)
I have just ordered one of these on the strength of your reviews, thanks for taking the time to put it up. I had been looking at them for a while but couldn't make my mind up. :-)
I actually read that thread *before* I bought the unit (it was one of the reasons I did). I think I'll stick with the Siglent firmware for the moment, though. I don't have another frequency counter, so it's pretty useful option to have.
That's hilarious. I wonder why they bother still putting the cutouts in, then. The only thing I can think of is they have a custom punch that knocks out the entire unfolded aluminium internal casing in one operation, and as such, they cannot remove portions without a lot of remachining. Gotta love china quality. Your product's case has a giant hole in it? Put a sticker over it!
Beats me. It seems that the camera ignores overheating in live-view mode, but will shut down if it overheats when you're taking video. It's quite annoying, actually.
