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Rigol MSO5074 - Four Channel, 70 MHz Digital / Mixed Signal Oscilloscope

4.5 (23 Reviews) | Catalog: MSO5074 | Model: Rigol MSO5074

70 MHz Digital Oscilloscope with 4 channels, 8GS/s, 100Mpoint memory

  • Four channel, 70 MHz digital / mixed signal oscilloscope
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  • Up to 8 GSa/s real-time sample rate
  • 100 Mpts memory depth, optional memory depth up to 200 Mpts
  • 16 digital channels included - requires optional PLA2216 logic probe to operate
  • High waveform capture rate (over 500,000 wfm/s)
  • Multiple interfaces available: USB HOST&DEVICE, LAN(LXI), HDMI, TRIG OUT, and USB-GPIB
  • Remote wireless control software - migrate instrument control and waveform analysis to PC
  • Auto measurement of 41 waveform parameters; full-memory hardware measurement function
  • Up to 450,000 frames of hardware real-time and ceaseless waveforms recording and playback functions
  • Integrates 7 independent instruments into 1 - digital oscilloscope, logic analyzer, spectrum analyzer, arbitrary waveform generator, digital voltmeter, a frequency counter and totalizer, and protocol analyzer
  • 9-inch capacitive multi-touch screen, 256-level intensity grading display, with color persistence
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Good, With Some Early Release Bugs

4

UPDATED COMMENTS ON 4-26-2019 on the bottom.

- Overall an excellent value for anyone needing a general purpose scope or a moderately price-d step up from the DS1KZ series.

The touch screen works surprisingly well, although some spots can be slow to update as is the boot time at ~1min. Given they're using the Xynq platform that comes down to a matter of code polish. Using the screen for keyboard input is however excellent, and menu navigation is straight forward and intuitive.

Decoding works well, although there are some odd spots. Limited trace colors (shades of green, to be changed in an update I'm told), and the odd addition of "Data" to every packet. Having to go into a separate menu for trace movement is also funky compared to it's more expensive DS7K brother.

Math wise, the FFT isn't half bad and updates fairly quickly for real time viewing (provided you scope down to frequencies of interest). Math options are also fairly abundant and appear to work correctly. The color graded mode with FFT can take forever to fill out though, so your mileage may vary there.

As expected, community support is also so far huge for this scope. Folks are already messing with the internal code, and given it's a Linux kernel on an Xynq, it'll only get better. If this will be someone's hobby/home scope, I'd so far recommend it as a "hackers" scope. There's a lot of potential.

That said, while the vast majority of bugs are little software kinks that are being fixed even now, there's one that's been plaguing a fair number of people, myself included as well as my workplace (multiple MSO7Ks). There appears to be an issue where some scopes have defective low freq front end cals resulting in non-trivial overshoot on fast edges and signal modification that cannot be comped out by the end user. Rigol is apparently aware and working on the issue, but frankly it negates the use of the scope for measuring many types of signals accurately, and should not have made it past QC. I'd otherwise recommend the scope, but that has to wait until Rigol makes the fix and it isn't a game of Russian Roulette. Once they do, this'll be bumped up to 4 stars with a healthy "you should buy this, for sure" recommendation :)


UPDATE
Rigol has since released firmware to fix the overshoots and wonky front-end cal, as well as added multiple features.
HiRes mode is still a bit iffy, but many other requested features have made it in, such as significantly more color choices for the LA, better touchscreen performance, and numerous bug fixes. It seems Rigol is well invested into making
their new platform a contender.

Daniel at Rigol has been very helpful throughout the entire process, even forwarding some advance release firmware
to my workplace when we needed our MSO7k's fixed quickly. Overall I'm rather pleased with the whole experience now
and would recommend the MSO5k for anyone needing a solid mixed signal scope on a budget.

Verified Purchase Mike D on Mar 06, 2019 I found this helpful (14)

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Great in many ways, compromised in others!

3

Really like the black modern look. It has seriously excellent specifications and there is no issue in understanding how to use this instrument. Great value for the money considering the included options for free! My only hesitancy is in the user interface responsiveness. I am accustomed to scopes that are super fast in response to user input and this area is very weak on the Rigol. I like the features, am not enamored with the channel 4 dark blue color choice. In general the persistence is fantastic and the features fantastic at the price! Wish for higher resolution (less noise) in voltage signal at low level - 8 bit is becoming a limiting factor. Wish for channel color selection. Wish for a user interface that offered faster response to input from the user, otherwise an awesome scope! Maybe Rigol can improve at least the responsivess and color choice in firmware.

Anonymous on May 30, 2021 I found this helpful (5)

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