On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:49:16 GMT (Nico Coesel) wrote in
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On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:37:22 GMT (Nico Coesel) wrote in
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:58:53 -0500 "Michael A. Terrell"
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Nico Coesel wrote:

JW wrote:

On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 12:28:51 +0100 Leif Neland wrote in
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JW har bragt dette til verden:
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:11:30 -0500 "Charles"
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This is a moderately priced spectrum analyzer covering 9 kHz to 1.5 Ghz with
a tracking generator option.

If you do RF, check it out.

No affiliation with Rigol. None. Nada.

No thanks. For a little more money ($3K) I could get an Agilent 8562A good
to 22GHz.

So $3K is just a little more money than $1,295 ?

Nice to know your reference...

In addition to what Michael said; When and if something goes wrong with
the HP, I have the complete set of service manuals with component level
information - I can fix it myself. Parts are plentiful for the HP as well.
What about the Rigol?

By the time your Rigol breaks down, Ebay will be swamped with 'for
parts' units.


All needing the same parts, or they wouldn't be on Ebay.

Probably. I wouldn't be surprised if it consists of 1 or 2 circuit boards
loaded with all sorts of chips that cannot be removed economically (BGA,
etc.) by your average tech. And with no service data, you likely wouldn't
be able to figure out what needed replacing anyway.

It seems you have very little experience with repairing equipment.

You'd be wrong in your assumption. I've probably repaired more test
equipment in my life than you've ever even seen. I worked for 3 years for

And you never seen a teardown of a Rigol scope :-)

Nope - it doesn't interest me in the least. To be honest, I don't bother
with low-end stuff. For myself, I only do HP/Agilent, Tek, Keithley, and
Rohde and Schwarz. Although I will take in repair orders for other brands,
nobody has ever asked me to take a look at any Rigol equipment.

a fairly large used test equipment company ( www.techrecovery.com ) as
their only component level tech. When I realized I could make a whole lot
more money buying broken equipment, doing the repairs, and reselling on
Ebay, I left them.

It seems the used equipment market is so much better at your end. I
recently restored a TDS544A but its hardly worth the effort from a
financial perspective. And I was extremely lucky someone offered a
working color CRT board for an absolute bargain. Perhaps it was the
shortest buy-it-now offering on Ebay ever :-)

I don't bother with TDS500 or TDS64X series anymore. Got tired of changing
out all those leaky caps, washing boards, and hunting for open traces in
the ACQ boards. Tedious work! Although I think the 500D series of scopes
didn't have that problem.