DSOX Colorblind Hack (why is it so hard to let the user choose the colors?)

[eb4eqa]

Hi all,

Many times discussed here, newer oscilloscopes (and other instruments) do not allow the user to select colors. On top of that, many times green, yellow and orange are the preferred colors, which gives us colorblinds a hard time...

As suggested by mikeselectricstuff, I went and did the hack to the DSO-X 3032A. I added blue backlight to the CH1 LED too 

http://www.rbarrios.com/projects/dsox/

Regards,
Roberto EB4EQA

[plesa]

Congratz to hack and thanks for sharing. BTW did you tried to contact Keysight? It looks like nice marketing opportunity to add this feature.

[Amazing]

Very creative solution, thanks for bringing it up.

I have the same problem, but my scope is still in warranty so I'm not going to mess with it.

Keysight, please do something about this.  The first two channels are indistinguishable for people with most common type of colorblindness.

EDIT: I don't care if the channel button LEDs don't match.

[nctnico]

A very useful hack! 
I hope this inspires Keysight to address this issue because a significant amount of their users are color blind.

[TheSteve]

I can totally understand why you'd want such a change if colorblind.

I don't see Keysight implementing this on any of the current scopes - but adding it to future scopes should not be a problem. While a software update could change the trace color they can't change the channel indicator LEDs on the face with current models to match.

You have old firmware installed based on the Agilent bootscreen. I would recommend updating to the newest build as it helps prevent non-booting from flash corruption.

[Keysight DanielBogdanoff]

Dang! That's super neat. I've also passed the feedback along to the team. Although, the rumor is that you just changed it to make the logo Keysight red .

BTW, definitely update your firmware.

[bitseeker]

Great job wiring up that adapter, Roberto, and I'm glad you did the blue LED for the button, too. It just wouldn't be complete otherwise.

[electrolust]

Good stuff!  I cannot see the diff between ch1 and ch2 either.  I have a 4ch and usually use 2-3 channels.  Only once have I used 4ch so far.  So now I've taken to just using ch2 and ch3 as my go-to channels.

[electrolust]

Roberto, I especially love the pics of your lab!!  But I haven't quite decided if that's a miniature staircase or if you have extra-large equipment.