I've got A 4 channel siglent scope, It's pretty sick (in the good way)
Unfortunately the probes are sick in the bad way. They are utterly insufferable. I cannot come up with forum appropriate language to describe them. the body slides around pushing the 1x/10x switch around, of the 4 1now has a mangled tip, and two others have soldering iron burns on them.
This is no good. I should have to spend 5 minutes at the start of every scope using session futzing with the probes, re--taping the 1x10x switch in place
I know that brand is popular, So - what are the rest of you using for probes? Other than like, not using the garbage ones it came with because they don't really work
Anyone know a model of low cost scope probes that aren't quite as terrible as these
That's a fair critique - but I don't know how anyone uses probes without damaging them in that way,.
And in any event, there's still the problem with the 1x/10x switch - as you handle the probe, it switchies from 10x to 1x, and then you waste 20 minutes trying to figure otu wat the devil is wrong with your circuit before you realize the scope probe is just set wrong, when it was set fine when you started,
I still have the probes that came with my old Tektronix and they still work well without any trouble. P2220. Pricey, though it is their cheapest 1X/10X passive.
Every so often, I'll look at their active probes and have to immediately close the browser
I like that idea for the recessed switch - but i;m not sure it would do the trick:
The problem isn't that the switch gets flipped. The problem is that the plastic slides around, such that the swtich can look like it's in the 10x position, but actually be in the 1x position. and it's the moving plastic part of the housing that flips the switch, not an accidental switch flip.
(note: I've been told that using probes in 10x mode unless 1x mode is required, is preferable and gives better results.My father, who worked with high end scopes his whole life (of course, the modern ones are more useful - digital storage is a miracle; I watched as a kid as he sought the holy grail of a working Tek storage scope, I forget whether he ever got one working properly, iirc the phosphor in the tubes would degrade) despises the fact that Siglent scopes and probes don't have the pin like Tek ones did that would detect the state of the switch and automatically switch to the correct mode)
I recall an electronics show in Portland, OR that had a Tec booth where they were showing the storage scope in development. You could watch a picture being drawn, map of a town with streets and buildings, and with a push of a button, erase it and start over. Fascinating!
Where I used to work, we had some replacement scope probes from RS Components (UK) that had a twist switch on the barrel (light grey ring in the image) to select between 1:1 and 1:10. From memory it required positive action from the user to change and couldn't be knocked. Best image I could find is this one:
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