Hi everyone,
I'm new to this Forum and for some days a new owner of that beautiful device! I own an Electric Engineering Degree for 35 y now and started
on the wrong side of the iron curtain with elctronics, (TTL, Zilog Z80, CCD sensors...)
I'm out of the E-business for 25+ years (and now in the healthcare industries) but for 10y I restarted as hobbyist elctronics.
In the beginning with Audio, now with microcontroller etc.
I looked around for month for a new Oscilloscope @ EEV, looked all the related videos @ youtube, saw Daves teardowns and at the end I considered to buy the SDS 1104X-E, later than I was more focused on the Rigol MSO5000.
Then the new Baby showed up on the market and after dealing with the WAF I orderd it by Welectron and it arrived after 2 days!!
Now to my small contribution to all followers.After playing around with the device I started well prepared with all Information from this Forum the "improvement" process.
But unfortuneately it didn'd work for me! I double and tripple checked the Scope ID, tested all variations with upper char and lower char, tested every tool
I found in the web - nothing!
"Your data were not accepted"
To make a 5 hour long story short: At the end it is a bug in firmware. (My device arrived with 1.3.3) But I think I better don't report it....
To have this famous christmas feeling (starting with the smallest parcel) I began with "improving" the FG-function and not the bandwith.
But this is the only one you have to use once before you can enter the code!!!!
After hours I switched to other options which all worked and found that little bug! So never start with improving the FG-option without using it before!
For newbies as me it is also worth mentioning that you have to do the bandwith improvement in steps from 100->200->350->500 and to avoid the others or
shortcuts (i.e. to try to go from 100->500 in one step)
Attached a measurment I have done over night to check the timebase with an 1pps GPS pulse. The second measurement is a Feeltec FY6900 Generator.
Both not that bad!!
My device reports itself as SDS2504.