We think this scope will be a winner.
Then why do you have such a small amount in stock?
I visit quite a few companies and so far I've only seen A-brand oscilloscopes in this price bracket. If Rigol wants to have any chance to make a name for themselves and compete then the firmware has to work 100% from day one. I just did a price comparison and the pricing on the DS7000 series is pretty much on par with similar instruments from A brands. There is very little room for justifying a make-do scope with partly working firmware in a professional environment where time equals money. I'm sure people will say I'm too negative but let's be real: Rigol doesn't have a very good track record and fixing firmware on their higher end models has taken long in the past. I'm looking forward to some in-depth tests which go deeper than twiddling some knobs to see what is what.
This.
Some years ago, we bought Rigol's flagship: the DS6104, including most options (uart, spi, i2c decoding etc.).
When we started to use the remote LAN connection, we hit the following three bugs:
bug no. 1: (reported at, and confirmed by, Rigol in October 2015)
When I run this software:
https://www.teuniz.net/DSRemote/ and select LAN connection,
I get randomly the response: "command error". This blocks the connection for 5 seconds and a timeout occurs.
This happens randomly, and when it happens, it does after sending different commands.
So, it's not related to one and the same command. Sometimes the program runs fine for minutes.
bug no. 2: (reported at, and confirmed by, Rigol in Januari 2017)
Apply a squarewave of 1KHz to channel 1.
Set triggering to normal, rising edge.
Set the memory depth to 1.4Mpts.
Acquire the signal, then set the scope to STOP mode.
Download the waveform in RAW mode, format BYTE.
When you observe the downloaded waveform, the triggerpoint is
shifted about 460 nanoSec.
bug no. 3: (reported at, and confirmed by, Rigol in December 2016)
When setting the treshold for the UART serial decoding,
it seems to work fine.
But when asking for the threshold setting, the value is always 10% of
the actual value.
This bug happens when the probe attenuation is set to 10:1.
These bugs are still unresolved and make it impossible for us to use the remote connection.
We have learned our lesson and we will
never buy Rigol stuff anymore for our business.