Happy owner of a new SDL since yesterday, I found the only Siglent distributor in Switzerland was in my street, less than 100m away from home
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I've read all this thread as usual with my other siglent devices (I've now got all their zoo puppies except the RF generator and VNA), thanks @tv84 for the useful firmware/scpi info
I was quite lucky because the SDL height is exactly perfect to insert into my "mobile lab shack" as shown on the second picture.
And obviously I spent some time investingating the capabilities, it's quite nice and fits my current (
) and future needs: Solar panels, mppt controllers, nimh, lifepo4, powerbanks, power supplies and more. A remarkable test was done with my Powerwerx SS-30DV, able to deliver 25A continuous and 30A surge at 14.1V : I'm quite happy with the SDL. I know there are some bugs documented above, but for now it's not a real issue for my needs.
The only problem I constantly have with Siglent, is their software.I have the feeling either they outsourced the development to someone different for each device in an external company, or they hired a trainee
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I really would love Siglent to take their customer feedback in account for this, and that they start writing an unified software that could handle all their devices (let's say, like Visa-NI that has a single framework with optional plugins per product), or at least rewrite their applications to be more synthetic and similar in terms of UI.
I wonder if @tautech has already given a feedback to Siglent about this, but on my side I feel that they could miss some customer market share because of the low quality of their software. That's a pity because the hardware is well engineered.
Next time I'll visit my Swiss distributor neighboor, I'll have a talk too about this. (oh, btw it's funny to see that the other brand they sell is Agilent. Not exactly the same price/market (they have 220GHz-1THz Spectrum Analyzers for example. Don't ask for the price...), but that means they didn't reject Siglent as being "low-end chinese devices"