Turn your Rigol DS1052E Oscilloscope into a 100MHz DS1102E
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From: David L. Jones on 30 Mar 2010 20:29 For those with a Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, you can now turn it into a 100MHz DS1102E with just a serial cable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE Dave. -- ================================================ Check out my Electronics Engineering Video Blog & Podcast: http://www.eevblog.com
From: Trevor Wilson on 30 Mar 2010 21:36 David L. Jones wrote: > For those with a Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, you can now turn it into > a 100MHz DS1102E with just a serial cable: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE > > Dave. **You're a bad man, Dave. A very bad man. Nice one. Thanks. -- Trevor Wilson www.rageaudio.com.au
From: John Larkin on 30 Mar 2010 23:03 On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:29:12 +1100, "David L. Jones" <altzone(a)gmail.com> wrote: >For those with a Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, you can now turn it into a >100MHz DS1102E with just a serial cable: > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE > >Dave. What you have done is possibly a criminal act in the USA, using a computer to deprive Rigol of revenue. In the US, "using a computer" to perform an act can be a much more severe crime than the act itself. I have some sympathy for Rigol here. Many of our products have an option that can be enabled in firmware, and that we charge for. We put a lot of engineering effort into the firmware, and need to be paid for it. If buyers of my gear can order the cheaper one and make it into the expensive one, by copying an EPROM maybe, or setting a bit in flash somewhere, I can't recover the cost of the feature. The act is arguably legal theft. It's certainly moral theft. Products are increasingly IP and less hardware these days, and the IP is expensive. Of course, Rigol made it too easy. They will probably go back and make it harder to do, and that will make the scope cost more in both versions. I recently got a 1052E, and it's a pretty nice scope. The digital filtering is not perfect, but it's sure cute. It has way more goodies than a comparable Tek for under half the price. I'll probably get a few more. John
From: F Murtz on 30 Mar 2010 23:04 David L. Jones wrote: > For those with a Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, you can now turn it into a > 100MHz DS1102E with just a serial cable: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE > > Dave. > This url does not open on my seamonkey but does on IE6 (with a warning to update browser)(which I did not do)
From: miso on 31 Mar 2010 00:46
On Mar 30, 8:03 pm, John Larkin <jjlar...(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote: > On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:29:12 +1100, "David L. Jones" > > <altz...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >For those with a Rigol DS1052E oscilloscope, you can now turn it into a > >100MHz DS1102E with just a serial cable: > > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnhXfVYWYXE > > >Dave. > > What you have done is possibly a criminal act in the USA, using a > computer to deprive Rigol of revenue. In the US, "using a computer" to > perform an act can be a much more severe crime than the act itself. > > I have some sympathy for Rigol here. Many of our products have an > option that can be enabled in firmware, and that we charge for. We put > a lot of engineering effort into the firmware, and need to be paid for > it. If buyers of my gear can order the cheaper one and make it into > the expensive one, by copying an EPROM maybe, or setting a bit in > flash somewhere, I can't recover the cost of the feature. The act is > arguably legal theft. It's certainly moral theft. > > Products are increasingly IP and less hardware these days, and the IP > is expensive. > > Of course, Rigol made it too easy. They will probably go back and make > it harder to do, and that will make the scope cost more in both > versions. > > I recently got a 1052E, and it's a pretty nice scope. The digital > filtering is not perfect, but it's sure cute. It has way more goodies > than a comparable Tek for under half the price. I'll probably get a > few more. > > John The design cost is amortized over all the units. [Hey, don't worry what the consults charges, it will go to zero as we sell a million units.] Rigol does themselves a disservice by having to maintain two products. They should just sell the higher speed scope, bomb the market, and then own it. |