The R&S MXO4 is too powerful for its own good (and Dave's sanity) 

"The tool on the stool needs to be smarter than the tool on the bench." - One of my ME profs.

Imagine clicking on that grayed out 'N single' box and it telling you precisely why it's grayed out. Now that would be a very nice UI feature. Maybe some day

This is like the RTB/RTM scopes- normally, you just get a history of the last of segments depending on the memory settings, but there is also a "Nx single" setting that sets how many segments "single" captures. Essentially this boils down to : 'run' then 'stop' gives you the last segments, 'single' gets you get the _first_ segments. This gives more flexibility than the more conventional segmented approach on other scopes. e.g. last segments are handy to trace back after an event, first segments to capture startup/boot behaviour. I did a vid about this ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O0xZXMHKlJY.html If "Nx single" defaults to 1, then it behaves like other scopes. I wonder if this resets if you to a 'preset' or whatever they call the return-to-defaults button.

Rename the button “Single (on steroids)”

When your scope comes with Clippy... :D

I really like the way it tells you the capture end time down to the nansecond. I wonder whether you can have the scope sync to a ptp time source so all instrument clocks are sync'd within microseconds of each other.

I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Please consult Chat GPT for clarification. The bots are taking over ....

That is one of the best unique features of new R&S scopes - they don't have any segmented memory "modes" and all the stuff is always on and the data is available even if you forgot that you may need it!

This is way beyond anything I'll ever need but I always enjoy all of your videos. My Tektronix 2235 is all I'll ever need, thanks!

When starting from a Preset, the single shot mode should work as expected (default is 1 acquisition, can be configured to make N acquisitions). The grayed out "N-single / Avg count" is due to settings left over from a previous user session. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gkgLcDy8ee4.html

There are two main branches of DSOs. The first is general purpose lab DSO, which, in some way, emulate the behavior of analog oscilloscope adding some more features to it. These things are very intuitive, you probably never open the manual. And there is also the second branch containing heavily specialized devices, presented MXO4 is a good example of a such thing. You definitely need to read the manual of such device and doing measurements is not a straightforward process due the fact, it needs some planning. UI of these things somehow expects you are using features like loading, defaulting and saving presets, which gives you (at least) predictable starting point. Typical workflow begins with planing the whole process, then loading default settings, then setting all you need to se to do the planed measurement and attaching the probing equipment, then saving that settings (just to have some point, where it is easy to return to), then doing measurements, saving results and analyzing them. These extremely complex equipment carry ability to somehow mimic the general purpose devices, but it's crucial to build some default preset (or more of them) to create an easy to use start point. They offer such a huge amount of menus and submenus with a lot of options, that it is almost impossible to hold complete situation awareness, which lead us to situations, where some setting, accidentally left from previous session, lurks in the deep darkness of complexity of that device waiting to kick your ass at the moment you wouldn't expect this, which is what happened in this case. The level of complexity of a general purpose equipment is much lower, which give those issues almost no place to hide. Which implies, that these heavily specialized beasts require complete different workflow than general purpose ones. Just my own experience.

all R&S scopes work like this. RTB/RTM/RTO/RTE I have worked with are all like that. But the default is usually Nx=1 capture so it behaves like you'd expect.

Ha! Sometimes you just get a bad dice roll. Good it wasn't a critical fail, with the scope emitting lots of magic smoke... I'd play with it, but normally it's far too advanced for what I do in my lab. I like the dual generator feature though. Damn useful for decluttering your test gear space.

It appears to be some sort of RTFM problem. I've run into them before. :)

I bought one and had the same frustrating experience with signal shot mode. There are a few other discrepancies in the operation of this scope,however, once I figured all the quirks out, I realized it blows myTek MSOX44 out of the water.

The almighty Dave was almost bested!

wow nice

Dave, it tells you the History mode/depth is on at upper right under the Acquisition section of the status bar.

Was the segmented memory disabled on the rtb2004?

This is a true power machine.....

A finger problem?

USD 8,440

Please explain the waves, Professor, please reply

Because one has R&S roots and the other has Hameg roots? Or... damn this thing doesn't work like other scopes I'm used to, and someone said something about rtfm but I don't know what that is... (because seriously, you will never have awareness of capability of you don't rtfm)

Title must be: Dave acts like a boomer again. Read the manual, yes after first pressing random button like we all do, but after that just read the manual! 😁

"Vee maake dis good! Yoo must do as vee say in da buk, even if it is not in da buk! Yoo veel like it, yes!" Years ago I ended up with 3 Hameg scopes at work, because no-one else in engineering could get them to work to make standard scope measurements. I kind figured it out, but depending on "where you came from" with the button presses they would respond differently. Finally sold them by weight for scrap with the emphasis in the sCRAP. Also try ordering parts for these gems sometime. 🤣

Too much costly

Professor, explain in detail. Please respond to my conversation. I want you to explain me from the beginning. Please reply.

I really hate R&S scopes... Always counterintuitive and like I'm not gonna bother reading manual Imma use Keysight

RS can't get this stupid with their flagship 12-bit scope.

First!

$22,000 piece of crap. sorry!!!.I like the simple not the complicated.