Rigol DS 1052E CRO

[JERD]

From reading earlier posts on this NG I know several have purchased the
Rigol DS 1052E CRO from China. (Happyseeds?)

I would appreciate knowing if you are happy with your purchase and the unit
meets your expectations.

Anyone had any problems with the unit?

Ta!

JERD

 

[Phil Allison]

"JERD"

From reading earlier posts on this NG I know several have purchased the
Rigol DS 1052E CRO from China.

** You can call it a digital scope, a digital storage scope, a DSO or
several other names.

But you cannot call it a CRO.

Cos it ain't one.



.... Phil

 

[David L. Jones]

From reading earlier posts on this NG I know several have purchased
the Rigol DS 1052E CRO from China. (Happyseeds?)

Yep, that's the guy we bought from.
No problems with him whatsoever. Fast ship with tracking, original box and
accesories etc, even an aussie power cord.

I would appreciate knowing if you are happy with your purchase and
the unit meets your expectations.

For the price, it exceeded my expectations.

Anyone had any problems with the unit?

None. Nor would you expect to, Rigol have a very good rep.

Dave.

 

[JERD]

Thanks for that feedback.

I am from the old school and 'bad habbits die hard' ( Nearly 70) as Phil
reminded me, its not a CRO!

JERD

 

[David L. Jones]

Thanks for that feedback.

I am from the old school and 'bad habbits die hard' ( Nearly 70) as
Phil reminded me, its not a CRO!

Indeed. But you still wouldn't be laughed out of the lab by asking for the
Rigol CRO!

Speaking of the term CRO, does anyone know the history of the acronym CRO?
It's pretty self explanatory of course, but haven't oscilloscopes always
used cathode ray tubes for the display? If so it makes the "CR" part very
much redundant I'd think, and I'm now rather curious as to how and where the
term CRO came into general use.
i.e. Did some of the early manufacturers market them as a "Cathode Ray
Oscilloscope" or just plain "Oscilloscope"?
I know that CRO is very much an Aussie favoured term, with the yanks and
many others prefering just "scope" as the abbreviated name.
Would be interesting to know the history behind this if anyone has any
ideas?

Dave (who lags behind JERD by a good 30 years or so!)

 

[keithr]

Indeed the yanks have interesting speak. Scope is certainly one.
If you asked someone to grab a scope here, you'd end up with a soldering
iron! (Are they still made?)
Say the word CRO to a yank and they look at you strange!

Another is Zee-80 as opposed to Zed-80

Sorry, I'm also (sort of) showing my age!

Ray

Dunno, I've always called a CRO a scope. Scope soldering irons were only
ever good for lighting cigarettes.

Yankspeak, in my experience, mainly consists of dropping letters from
words like solder becomes sodder, error becomes err etc.

 

[Phil Allison]

"KR"

Very happy with it. Fast delivery (about a week) direct from China,
all the accessories, ready to go.

There was only one strange problem, was using it while developing
software on a microcontroller with it,

At a certain sweep frequency, it refused to show a square wave
that was actually there !

(note, circuit worked, and waveform could be seen on my old Tek Anlaog
CRO.)

If you changed the sweep frequency 1 step up or down, it appeared
perfectly.


** Gotta love analogue CROs.

Honest, hard working and never tell lies.





...... Phil

 

[terryc]

On Jun 30, 12:23 pm, "JERD" <jedunk@Take_Outbigpond.net.au> wrote:

Very happy with it. Fast delivery (about a week) direct from China, all
the accessories, ready to go.

Tip; make sure it doesn't come by DHL. My last package from china sat in
Sydney for five days.

 

[David L. Jones]

Tip; make sure it doesn't come by DHL. My last package from china sat
in Sydney for five days.

I get DHL from China regularly, no problems at all.

Dave.

 

[terryc]

This was OK, was EMS - came through the post office.

That was what had me head scratching this time. Last time was Aust Post.