http://www.iti.iwatsu.co.jp/index_e.htmlDear valuable customers,
Due to the terrible disasters by earthquakes in north Japan, our manufacturing facilities in Fukushima prefecture are partially damaged. Also traffic and electricity are still remain in limited availability. We, Iwatsu Test Instruments Corp., do our best to recover and catch up our production and services in normal position as soon as possible. However, products' delivery and repair, maintenance & recalibration services in our Aizu-Fukushima factory are possibly estimated in delay. We are sorry for any of your inconveniences caused and hope your understanding.
What? The Fukushima power plant disaster happened at 11th March 2011...
Well, Iwatsu produces only
one series of digital oscilloscopes. Oh, why only one??
http://www.iti.iwatsu.co.jp/en/products/ss/index.html This DS-5500 is strange... Is can be 500Mhz bandwidth but only 1Gs/s per each channel. Even worse than Rigol... A new Iwatsu is definitely not a banf per buck, these scopes are not suitable for hobbyists... Unless you buy it very cheap...
Well, Iwatsu has some advanced analysis function, but not much modern hardware. Iwatsu has no subsidiary in Europe. It's not possible to download an user manual from their website.
What the hell. I could not find any eshop that sells those DS-5500 scopes... This Iwatsu looks bad when compared to Agilent or Tektronix.
We know that LeCroy WaveJet is manufactured by Iwatsu. You cannot buy other Iwatsu products in Europe...
Let's compare prices of these four channel scopes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LECROY - WAVEJET WJ324-A - DSO, 200MHZ and 1Gs/s per each channel - costs
3970 Euro.http://de.farnell.com/lecroy/wavejet-wj324-a/dso-200mhz-4-ch-500kpts-ch/dp/1698111--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES - MSOX3024A 200MHz and 2GS/s per each channel
+ included 16 channel Logic analyzer!!! costs
4365 Euro http://de.farnell.com/agilent-technologies/msox3024a-wavegen-dsoxdvm-education-kit/scope-education-200mhz-options/dp/1923880------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES - DSOX3024A 200MHz and 2GS/s per each channel
costs
3400 Euro http://de.farnell.com/agilent-technologies/dsox3024a-wavegen-dsoxdvm-education-kit/scope-education-4-ch-200mhz-option/dp/1923888--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There is no reason to choose the Iwatsu (=LeCroy) scope...