William Chops Westfield wrote:
> I *LIKE* my TDS-210,

I have one for my use at a customer, so have acquired some experience with
it.  My biggest gripe with it is that the horizontal trigger position stays
fixed in time relative to the center of the screen when you change time
scales.  It does not stay fixed in screen position as you would want.  This
may sound like a minor nit, but when you use the scope regularly it gets
REALLY ANNOYING.  Especially when you expand the time scale the trigger
position is suddenly gone because it got moved off screen.  If you're not
used to this "feature", you start fumbling thru the menus trying to figure
out how you accidentally made the trigger display go away.  After you're
used to it you have to remember to move the trigger to the center, expand
the time scale slowly, keep moving the trigger back to the center unless you
got it right on center the first time else the error will eventually blow up
and move it off screen, get to the right time scale, then move the trigger
back to where you had it in the first place.  It gets to the point where you
dread changing the time scale so you don't have to mess around with the
trigger.  Either that or leave the trigger in the center of the screen, but
that gets annoying too since that usually wastes half the screen.

It also pisses me off because we all know it would have been a simple
difference in the firmware to have done it right.  I understand things like
bandwidth, sample depth, number of channels, etc cost money and that a low
end scope will have less of them, but doing this right would have cost
nothing extra.

Other things that are "unimpressive" but somewhat more forgiveable in a low
end scope are the relatively low screen resolution, particularly vertically,
and the surprisingly high noise especially at faster sample rates.


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