I'd like to have a place to discuss the Rigol DS1054 scope and its cousins since a few of us have them or other Rigol scopes. So here we go. Questions, answers, features, measurements, help... and BUGS.
First thing.... I really like the scope and use it many hours each day but I just discovered something while testing a portion of the "nanosecond pulser" circuit.
I'm getting a reproducible bug that's pretty darn severe.
The scope freezes up, becomes totally non-responsive (but still displays live waveform) when the Horizontal Zoom mode is engaged, and a Persistence Time other than "min" is selected.
Cycling power restores functionality --- usually.
I discovered this on Firmware 04.02 and now have upgraded to Firmware 04.03 and it still does the same thing. One channel active, showing a waveform, select the Horiz. zoom mode by pressing the Horizontal Scale knob, select the Display menu and then any Persistence Time other than Min ... and scope freezes.
If I select a persistence time _before_ selecting the Horiz. zoom mode... the scope freezes, and since I have "Last" set as power-on option, the scope comes up frozen after restarting !! So I have to do the "press repeatedly the 5th left menu button during startup" to get the scope back to responding again (reset to defaults, chinese language).
I don't think other settings matter, I've tried it in Normal and Average acquisition modes, with various timebase and V/div settings, etc. It seems to be some interaction between persistence time selection and the horizontal zoom feature.
Slider, does yours do this too? Don't worry, you can get it back even if it comes up frozen on startup, by repeatedly pressing the 5th dark grey button on the left side while the scope is starting up. It will come up in factory defaults, with chinese language, but you can change back to English right there.
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