They will still make a good profit on the non A models
Its just ripp off to get a good profit with having minimum costs
for example they limit bandwith like on the function generator
for example the 20MHz DG1022Z costs about 400€ the DG1062Z costs 715€, same story only a byte is set different to enable 3 times more frequency
I dont even bothered to mess with this as I dont need that fast and luckyly also the small one got same poiunt count
for example Siglent dont do this they sell you a full featured scope for 400€,
while the limited Rigol costs also 400€ and it costs you another 250€ to upgrade to get the same features like bandwith and point storage
Another example of this - Alcatel Lucent selling POE switches with 10gbit uplinks and limiting them to 1gbit to sell a license to unlock. Just went through that at work.
Now lets talk about a totally legal hack to make my Fluke 8845A use a PTC to show temperature, offical only supported in the 8846A
but with the maths functions you can do offset and multiplier to show the temperature reading in the kOhms range
Also build me for 5$ a probe instead paying 500$ for a way too big Fluke probe
Both of these are just your opinion. I’m sure Rigols opinion is different than yours. Since Rigol makes the product and sets the prices, their opinion is what matters.
If they see a rise in the lower model sales and a drop in the higher model sales they might figure out people are just hacking the lower models so then they might go to the trouble of leaving certain hardware pieces out of the lower models. Time will tell. Hack while you can. :+1:
Yeah, but the point is that if they are able to sell it at the lower price for a profit, with no hardware or firmware changes, then the top price model is over-priced. There’s actually a good business reason to do that. Some people are not happy unless they spend a lot on a product. They will buy the over-priced stuff because to them, it is not over-priced. Even if you told those people that the only difference is the “A” being included on the end of the name, and showed them how it worked, they wouldn’t believe you. They would swear that the “A” model is objectively better in some way. This is a confirmed psychological effect. Some companies choose to make money off of this effect. In a way, they’re meeting a very real “need” for those people. :money_mouth_face:
I can tell you one absolutely fantastic feature the A has
Its screen is actually not anymore monocromatic, wow colorful display
anyway I will also break the warranty label on the 832 installing a 92mm silent fan with maglev bearing instead the noisy original 80mm fan
a little bit more airflow at at about 14dB less noise
same with the DG1022Z, way too noisy fan
I think a monochromatic screen is best for text. The old amber (or green) computer monitors were very readable. I’d still say that would be best for any text-only output. But the world has grown accustomed to “full-color” displays, even in places where it doesn’t make sense! :person_facepalming:
Since I got a D4SV2 I’m a big fan of Andruil with 1634 and RGB LEDs.
Do you have any plans to migrate some of your drivers to that architecture eventually?
