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I'm thinking of buying this nice DSO for under 1k $US for home use. It's the 70 MHz model in the Rigol DS2000 series.
But that's not why I'm posting. I wanted to share these video reviews of the scope which are a real hoot -- provided you have spent a lot of your time using oscilloscopes yourself.
The videos are 30-40 minutes each, but even watching for a few minutes is worthwhile.
Here the good stuff starts at about 9:30, where there is a good discussion of the noise floor:
Here he takes the scope apart and reviews the construction and design. I didn't understand half of it, but my background isn't in EE design:
http://www.eevblog.com/2012/09/26/eevblog-360-rigol-ds2000-oscilloscope-teardown/
But that's not why I'm posting. I wanted to share these video reviews of the scope which are a real hoot -- provided you have spent a lot of your time using oscilloscopes yourself.
The videos are 30-40 minutes each, but even watching for a few minutes is worthwhile.
Here the good stuff starts at about 9:30, where there is a good discussion of the noise floor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRy755StMak
Here he takes the scope apart and reviews the construction and design. I didn't understand half of it, but my background isn't in EE design:
http://www.eevblog.com/2012/09/26/eevblog-360-rigol-ds2000-oscilloscope-teardown/