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You have been a very busy boy in the 6 weeks since joining with all these trails and investigations on Rigol and Siglent equipment, honestly do not know where you find the time to perform all of these tests and correlate the results with work and home life
Impressive throughput of small investigations, envious of the amount of time you have for these tasks great work ethic
One would seriously feel you would looking to take on Dave's mantle in the Europe possible even a UK pundit can you tell what next on the review agenda also what other projects you are currently working on to the wee small hours.
With your ability to acquire respectable equipment almost at will I wonder if you are one of Tautech world wide secret squirrel network beavering away for the good of the T&E population
Why not give a little background about yourself , work experiences and current projects pretty sure the guys would like some insight on what makes you tick and your ability to get the bit between your teeth.
With you superb work ethic I have to admit you do not strike me as a native Brit, simply as they would be down the pub after the first sideways step
Hey sighound36
Thank you for your kind words – not sure if this is a backhanded compliment or not – as I know you DO have a well-tempered sense of humor.
Yeah, I’m new to EEVblog as a registered member – but been browsing about for about 12 months.
I’m a victim of covid-19 (not medically – I’m fine I think?) as I am unable to continue with my normal work and am in essence working from home.
By doing this
– I can manage my own schedule
– and unfortunately have shifted my ‘day’ to ‘night’
– hence lurking and posting early morning UK time.
What do I do for living?At the moment
– I am enjoying being semi-retired because of covid-19
– but I am a research scientist in microelectronics
– a bit of a mouthful , but it sounds good.
I have not been active in this field (I mean being at the cutting edge) for over 15 years, however I do projects and consult here and there
– usually by word-of-mouth introductions.
Why do I do investigations on Rigol and Siglent and perform all these tests whilst still having time for work and homelife?Trying to be savvy with $$ and not having immediate ‘paying’ clients
– my choices in test equipment are limited to Rigol and Siglent, as are many other forum members on a budget.
Right now, I work from home and don’t have homelife (kids left nest) so decided to deplete my savings and finally treat myself to some ‘kit’ so I can rekindle some of my design aspirations I never could see through years ago.
I HAVE purchased ALL of the ‘kit’ I use from a UK distributor
– so no I am not part of Tautech’s secret squirrel network
– but if he does indeed have such a network
– I am happy to ‘play’ with some new kit and write a review.
I have also taken member Elisia’s advice on how to best decide on which type of ‘kit’ to purchase
– especially when you really don’t know what is the best for your needs and don’t want to make the wrong decision.
Elisia suggested to ask your Test Equipment distributor
– to ‘test drive’ the kit you want to buy
– on a sale or return basis.
Fortunately my distributor was willing to do this with me
I have committed to purchase an RF signal generator
– either a Rigol or a Siglent
– so they agreed for me to ‘test drive’ each instrument.
As a thank you for their willingness to do this for me, I offered to write an ‘as you go’ review on EEVblog
– so other members can possibly ‘see’ or have some further insights into these products
– possibly making their purchasing decisions easier.
Of cause
– if someone wants to buy a Rigol or Siglent product
– I would personally recommend my distributor (PM me if you are interested)
– but don’t want to overtly publicize sales related stuff in the forum posts.
Sorry but Tautech is already doing plenty of this
– so more from anyone else is not wise
– unless you are prepared to bring something to the table
– so every member here can benefit indirectly.
As far as Dave’s mantle in EU / UK
– this is not desired
– Dave does a great job already, and anybody who thinks it’s easy to do a decent review or teardown, they don’t know what’s involved for sure.
- Its bloody hard work!
– as Dave would say with his ‘OZ accent.
My superb work ethic? Flattery will get you everything …
No , not really, I just feel bad if I got something I just did with my new ‘kit’ and after making some quick observations and screen shots
– for myself
– why not share it with others
– only takes a few minutes and indirectly documents your own findings for yourself as well.
Am I a native Brit?Well, I don’t know what gave me away here
– but you caught me
– no not native
- although I have been here long enough to be passionate about politics and fight social injustices.
(Please don’t ask me about Boris – you I will have to start my rant …)
What’s on the upcoming review addenda?Basically all the kit I have purchased
– so as I learn about the features and stuff you can do with these instruments, I like to make some presentations
– so everyone benefits.
Strong believer of pay-it-forward!
Hopefully will be reviewing SSG3021X soon (I need to either purchase DSG815 or the Siglent)
I have just received a GPSDO
– so will do a mini ‘review’
– great bit of ‘kit’
– in my opinion a must have device for any test lab.
Just got a replacement (Via Amazon) programmable digital attenuator
– there is a dedicated thread on this which I started
– my original was a DOA
– this second unit works
– but has broken switch
– so will complete this review soon.
Got the logic probe kit for Rigol MSO5074
– so will be doing ‘hands-on’ documentation as I discover its capabilities
– will start new thread for this.
I have also been given ‘on loan’ a Rigol DSK6K DemoBoard because I asked if I could borrow this and they said yes
(lesson to be learned – if you don’t ask , you don’t get opportunity to have)
– to have a baseline learning platform for the MSO5074 digital probes.
As I learn to use the logic probe kit myself
– I will document my ‘learning’ on a forum thread
– so others who are interested can view.
I also got a set of Sensepeek – PCBite probes
– a great bit of kit
– member Elisia has a set and using already, I still have not opened my box
– but it’s a important bit of kit for me
– as I want to test this probe kit for use with RF circuits.
I have RF amplifier with LPF on same PCB
– want to check the LPF frequency response by injecting RF signal (hence RF signal generator interest) with micro-probe and test response on SVA
– without powering the amplifier
– because the LPF is a passive component structure on the PCB.
If I am still ‘at home’ due to covid-19 after finishing all of the above stuff
– then I might also do some testing with the ADLM (Analog Devices Learning Module) Pluto SDR
– it is capable of doing some complex RF modulation
– so will synthesize a DVB-T television signal
– and observe the spectral quality on the SVA
– nothing to prove
– just observations and deeper understanding on the use of the test equipment.
So, I hope the above has enlightened some of the members visiting this thread (I feel naked now) and at the same time quenched your thirst to know more about me and my activities on the EEVblog forum - more importantly, my mysterious endless supply of decent ‘kit’ , any secret association with tautech, aspiration to steal Dave’s mantle, and future projects have now been answered
Sorry for the delayed response - I time shifted - my day starts at 3PM GMT - at least until I can get back to normal time - hopefully this weekend.
Cheers
EDIT: Apologies for such a long - essentially 'off topic' post in this interesting thread - but I guess better than starting another thread instead