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I just noticed John's msg only went to me. I'm pretty sure he wanted
it to go to the group (we have to use "reply all" for that).<br>
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But I didn't delete the link: we need a fill for that.<br>
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-Pete<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks
Pete, the spelling is correct. Two notes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Here
is a link to the EEVBLOG thread about Rigol scopes and
hacking. This is the original thread from 2014 and it gives
a map to the thousands of other threads that this spawned.
A firmware update will allow the machine to operate as a 100
MHz scope with all the options. I've done it to my machine
and there doesn't appear to be any downside. BTW the
EEVBLOG forum is an excellent place for test equipment
information. Dave Jones, the author of the EEVBLOG even
does comprehensive teardowns and full reviews- strong
opinions but funny with a strong Aussie accent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Some
notes on Asian manufacturing of USA equipment. "All" of
this low end test equipment is designed and manufactured in
Asia and about 80% in China for last 15 years or so. The
business model is called ODM- "original design
manufactures". It became very popular with notebook
computer manufactures in the 90's. The big US companies
design and build their flagship products stateside but
farmed out lower end business to China (originally Taiwan).
The US company approves designs and oversees production and
quality but the equipment is all Chinese. In some cases,
you can see absolute clones of US equipment under Chinese
brand names. A lot of the far eastern manufacturers like
Rigol and Siglent started this way. The trend in the last
few years has been to create China based Joint Ventures with
US Companies. Keysight's JV is called "Chengdu Instruments"
in Sichuan province. Tektronix and others have JV's in
china too. These joint ventures give the US guys more design
input, access to R&D and security from counterfeiting.
In most cases today, all production is done in China rather
than just low end. US employees rotate through these
Chinese JV's and train the locals. This model has become
common in many industries like automotive (Delco, etc) Most
of the more established Chinese vendors like Rigol are up to
the same quality levels as equivalent equipment offered by
Tek and Keysight, etc that is made in China.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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