Owon (Lilliput) sale at Arrow.com - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: maxwell3e10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2019, 05:47:34 pm
content: Arrow.com now has a sale on Owon test equipment that's less than 50% of typical prices. Also free next day shipping in USA for orders over $50. We'll see what I get tomorrow.https://www.arrow.com/en/manufacturers/lilliput/view-all

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2019, 06:37:35 pm
content: At 188$ the XDS3202E is pretty cheap. Ordered one

author: msquared
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 16, 2019, 06:50:01 pm
content: Picked up a VDS3104L, one of the few PC scopes with a LAN port. I've been looking at it for sometime but had a hard time spending the $400+, at $200 with free shipping I had to give it a go.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 12:37:13 am
content: Spectrum analyzer for $500 with TG, not bad:https://www.arrow.com/en/products/xsa1015-tg/lilliput-electronicshttps://www.arrow.com/en/products/xsa1036/lilliput-electronicsBut they call all the scopes "digital bench USB interface box" maybe thats why they didn't sellQuote from: Kosmic on December 16, 2019, 06:37:35 pmWhat is that, the 5th scope you've bought this month? Maybe this one will show up though.

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 01:45:02 am
content: Quote from: thm_w on December 17, 2019, 12:37:13 amWell i'm tryingI was effectively shopping for a somehow simple and quiet scope. All those sellers on amazon just teased me. I ended up reading on Owon scopes and I'm curious to try one.

author: jemangedeslolos
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 08:06:08 am
content: Thank you maxwell3e10,I wasn't quick enough to buy a VDS3104 ( already out of stock ).But I bought a VDS3102. It will be usefull on my desk for quick debug.I hesitated with an XDS3202E, but the interface seems very slow to me and that's all I hated on the Rigol 1054z so the VDS3102 will be fine as a second scope.

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 10:14:33 am
content: Must be intro pricing.Digikey USAalso recently signed up to sell Owon, but at typical pricing. Digikey Canada not carrying Owon, and Fluke is gone.B41T+ is $99 at Digikey and $34 at Arrow for now.

author: mnementh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 03:01:37 pm
content: Yup... pretty much every scope under $200 is gone now, aside from the USB capture boxes. I don't believe the weird product listing was an accident; they probably made it as nondescript as possible to keep this deal "just between us meatsacks" so actual human beings might find it before the parasitic shopping site bots did.Well, and so they could limit quantities in a sane fashion.mnemmoo?

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 09:55:55 pm
content: That was quickJust received mine. It's the basic version with no options (touch screen, battery, dmm, function generator). It's working well though. Do not make a lot of noise and -3 dB point has been tested at 349MHz.

author: SpecialK
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 10:22:42 pm
content: Quote from: maxwell3e10 on December 16, 2019, 05:47:34 pmThanks for the tip!I was looking for a bench multimeter, and the XDM3051 looks nice. I was also looking for a dual power supply so the ODP6033 also fits the bill.I'm hoping not to be hit with a brokerage fee. Any idea if Arrow is good like Digikey?

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 10:25:57 pm
content: Quote from: SpecialK on December 17, 2019, 10:22:42 pmBrokage was 10$ for me. On top of that I had to pay taxes.

author: SpecialK
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 10:35:04 pm
content: Quote from: Kosmic on December 17, 2019, 10:25:57 pmThat's really excellent if the taxes are on actual purchase price, not what FedEx chooses as a value.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 10:38:10 pm
content: $1k for proper 3.6GHz SA is heading in the right direction.When they get to 5.8ghz band i'll get one.

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 17, 2019, 10:43:50 pm
content: Quote from: SpecialK on December 17, 2019, 10:35:04 pmYes actual purchase price

author: maxwell3e10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 02:25:45 am
content: Mine XDS3062A came with optional arbitrary waveform generator, bus decoding and DMM.

author: deadlylover
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 18, 2019, 07:52:04 am
content: Rigol 1074Z plusfor ~USD130, I don't need it.Gentleman's agreement that it goes to someone who will use it and not sell it?

author: martin1454
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 07:48:22 am
content: Quote from: deadlylover on December 18, 2019, 07:52:04 amSeems like I got it! - Got a tracking #.Thank you so much for the tip! I never though I would be able to get an oscilloscope in the near future! I promise not to sell it for like at least 5 years!

author: maxwell3e10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 19, 2019, 11:23:17 pm
content: Out of curiosity I requested a quote for DS1074Z and it still quotes $132, although the lead time is 9 weeks.

author: mnementh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 20, 2019, 01:10:41 am
content: mnem

author: maxwell3e10
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2019, 08:31:26 am
content: For those who just got Owon scopes... I found that transferring data from the oscilloscope is quite clunky. Their PC program is buggy (in some cases it multiplies the data by a factor of 8!) while saving to USB stick is very slow. In addition both of these methods introduce glitches where there are occasional repeated points in the saved data that are not present in the original data. VISA over USB didn't seem to work for me. But TCPIP worked fine. So I wrote a little Matlab script to get the data and plot it. It works pretty fast and has no glitches. This can also be easily ported to Python.Code:obj1=instrfind('Type', 'tcpip', 'RemoteHost', '192.168.1.72', 'RemotePort', 3000, 'Tag', '');if isempty(obj1)obj1 = tcpip('192.168.1.72', 3000);elsefclose(obj1);obj1 = obj1(1);endset(obj1, 'InputBufferSize', 10000000);set(obj1, 'ByteOrder', 'littleEndian');fopen(obj1);fprintf(obj1, ':DATA:WAVE:DEPMem:All?');numt = fread(obj1, 1, 'int32');headlen= fread(obj1, 1, 'int32');head = fscanf(obj1, '%c', headlen);len1 = fread(obj1, 1, 'int32')/2-1;junk1 = fread(obj1, 1, 'int16');data1 = fread(obj1, len1, 'int16');plot(data1);if (numt-headlen-100)/2>len1len2 = fread(obj1, 1, 'int32')/2-1;junk2 = fread(obj1, 1, 'int16');data2 = fread(obj1, len2, 'int16');hold on;plot(data2);hold off;endfclose(obj1);

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 21, 2019, 03:00:41 pm
content: I didn't notice those problems on my XDS3202E. Did you try updating the firmware ?Nevermind, found the same problems when looking at the exported waveforms and not just images.

author: mnementh
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 22, 2019, 05:08:22 pm
content: Aww, it's dain-bramaged. you need to sell it to me now.mnem

author: Kosmic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: December 23, 2019, 12:49:03 pm
content: The Rigol DG831 (161$ vs 379$) and MSO2102A (318$ vs 969$) are also really cheap.https://www.arrow.com/en/products/dg831/rigol-technologies-inchttps://www.arrow.com/en/products/mso2102a/rigol-technologies-inc