Unless you experience a very unlikely miracle on a working unit or have the skills to take a chance on a fix-er-upper you are going to be spending a good chunk of change. Old HP stuff was built in quantity and and the boxes contain lots more than just Vapor ware.īuying a digitizing spectrum analyzer is different than most other test equipment due to the prices involved- it will likely be the advanced hobbyist's biggest TE investment.
and a three year warranty, so you aren’t at risk for throwing a lot of money away on something used with the potential to turn in to a un-repairable door stop without warning.Only, so long as the manufacturer supports it, and when the warranty goes away, it may cost so much to get it repaired that you elect to have a door stop anyway. On digitizing analyzers color displays also make a world of difference in keeping the things you are looking at sorted out.
You get a great analyzer for the money, and it’s a new piece of equipment with support (Rigol has a USA field office in Oregon), more bells and whistles than you'll know what to do with, and a three year warranty, so you aren’t at risk for throwing a lot of money away on something used with the potential to turn in to a un-repairable door stop without warning. I regularly use 3 older HP spectrum analyzers that I got for good prices, (one is an older analog SA, and IMHO analog SA's sort of suck, some may disagree but that's my feeling about them) and if I did it again from the beginning I would probably go with a new Rigol DSA815 with the TG.
#DSA815 TG BASIC SPECTRUM ANALYISI VIDEO SERIES#
I love old HP test equipment too, and while they are excellent performers many of that series of HP/Agilent analyzers were made in the late 1990’s, and nearly everything inside of them is becoming obsolete in very fast order, and they are extremely complex instruments that are not simple to troubleshoot if problems develop. Very few hobbyists play in the upper microwave regions, so all that extra bandwidth of the Agilent would be practically useless for many. 6.5 GHz for the Agilent, the Agilent having quite a bit more frequency coverage. oranges comparing the Rigol DSA 815 to the Agilent 8595E in that the Rigol is a 1.5 GHz analyzer vs.
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