It's more like "the number plate light isn't as bright as I normally like it".
i like this.
and i would like to add that i wouldn't even remember it on every day of the week and the cops wouldn't notice it either!
tinhead
Every other manufacturer (and even half of the cheap DIY china scopes) is capable of implementing AC coupled trigger/channel, so where is the problem for Rigol?
oh, come on!
i think we all read the examples where chinese scopes perform (or not) based on the serial number they have....and not in function that are rarely (if ever) used as this one.
with these bugs it's still best bang for the buck in market today.
or will you care to name something better in that price range?
it can have the same bugs as this one!
ehm...
d.hess
I think tinhead's analogy is pretty good. How often do you use reverse gear? You can always park where you do not need reverse or get out and push your car backwards.
no, it's not good beacuse it's not practical.
imagine sales of a car with reverse gear that is just awfuly noisy.
no, you can't compare even that with a function of a scope, because scopes today have many funcitons many people will rarely use.
most peopla here didn't know what ac trigger is, and that's a fact.
most car drivers know what is reverse and use it every day. it's the thing that prevents them from pushing the car.
otoh i doubt they know all the functions of ther new "entertainment systems" in cars....
this would be like missing an option to play...say....flv files in cars....or an .avi with indeo4 if we wanna be really obscure...i mean most people don't know about these things, so their chances of objecting it are rather diminished.
if you object (ie tinhead) it that much, fix it yourself!
(ie the approach markl just did with trying to figure it out himself)and then charge to all rigol users that want it fixed, but i predict you'll soon be out of business if you would rely just on that source of income!
this is not to say rigol shouldn't fix it....but somehow i doubt most will would be sending it away to fix this problem, esp. if rigol wouldn't pay the return shipping too.
(i must admit that i dunno would i even change the firmware if it would be fixable in that way...i mean...would i lose the hack options by doing that?
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to that extent was there ever such a case that electronics company did that, i mean to repair a big amount of units and pay for their shipping?
but i like it how rigol got our hopes up when they said to do self calibration.... heh...
i would say rigol should investigate this and explain it thoroughly, and explain possible fix scenarios....that would be enough from them...not a pdf with few questions...
if you just send it to them for repair, you won't learn anything about your scope!