i feel like their shit like the MDO SA is glitchy and im not happy with the performance so price is not the problem. freezing trying to take a simple measurement.
if I was seriously dependent on that capability there would be some old HP there. why do I have the feeling the wire and cable guys were the brain of the operation
. I saw a opportunity once to make a board to get rid of some cables and a very experienced engineer was like NO. I thought OK maybe he has a point. years later I see yeah he had a
damn good point. I see now just cost pressure was driving me crazy into trying to implement a undesirable design that would basically constrict product development to save a few wires by making everything into a fucking broadway production. Now it translates to me like "KILL THE FUCKING SYSTEMS ENGINEER WITH A CRACKER"
Oh yeah I see nothing great about the 'board mount' modules either that they tried to push to get rid of another cable. Header pin stacks for a power supply for 60 amps. They seem to break. Why do I think if they had a big cable in the back it would be fine? chassis is also paper thin
Also its just a stack of pins on a board that you need to seat a module on. There is also a sticker that says "danger 60 amps" on two exposed rows of header pins. Lose wire in that chassis goes BOOM
they tried really hard to get rid of cables but its still bloody expenisve and it just pisses people that have to work with it wayy the fuck off.
as for the buttons yeah their shit too. I want plastic buttons that click. You graze the fucking rubber on the MDO and it will switch coupling etc. I had about 200 recordings go to AC coupling (for a big shot multi big company evaluation thing! nice delay to explain to my boss you cheap ass mother fuckers!!!! when you work fast to get stuff done your counting on not having to look at the fucking screen to see if settings change) . I don't feel confident at all using that god damn shit no matter how expensive it is
and something is fuked up with the memory too I had it change settings on me when i was away from it. I go through a check list every time I use that thing to make sure its all good now because you can't trust it.
also for some devices during aging studies you gotta get it right or the sample is fucked!!!!!!!! their one time only measurements!!!!!!!! oscilloscopes can be super critical you can't be doing this crap with them!!!! with how god damn unreliable those new switches are I would prefer a fucking matrix board to solder jumpers on to configure the god damn scope, at least I am not worried it will try to fuck me!!!!
and sometimes it failed to trigger when I had other equipment hooked up to the same node that showed me it should have triggered! WHAT THE HELL TEKTRONIX??!?!! DO I HAVE TO SOLDER A MULTIMETER WIRE TO THE CENTER PIN TO PREVENT YOU FROM BLAMING THE GOD DAMN PROBE ? I WANT TO SOLDER A FUCKING ANALOG DIRECT CONNECT MONITOR PORT ON THE SCOPE (DAMN THE SIGNAL INTEGRITY) TO VERIFY THAT THE TRIGGER DID INDEED FAIL AND ITS NOT MY FAULT!