Rigol DS1052E 50MHz to 100MHz scope hack
March 11th, 2010 by Jeff
Hack a Day posted yesterday that a guy named Ross turned his 50MHz Rigol DS1052E into a 100MHz capable instrument by removing part of a lowpass filter on the analog inputs.
I think it remains to be seen whether there are any other mods required to make this work like a real DS1102E (ie. does the 1052E firmware limit the minimum horizontal timescale?) but this is hardware hacking at its finest!
Read more about it on the EEVblog forums.
Tags: EEVblog, hack, hackaday, oscilloscope, Rigol
This Hack is now obsolete, there is now a simple software hack.
That is very exciting!
For anyone else following along, software hack to update model # and SN seems to unlock 100MHz bandwidth of Rigol DS1052E: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=30.210
Here is the detail for you.
Connect a straight through serial cable to scope and computer.
Open up a terminal program on the PC, set to 9600 baud 8 data bits, no parity,1 stop bit, no flow control, set it to echo back what you type and send only Linefeeds.
to test coms send :IO:TEST testing
it should come back with “testing”
great, now to hack your scope
:INFO:MODEL DS1102E
OOPS, HIT THE SUBMIT BEFORE I WAS FINISHED!
Here is the rest
No change the serial (X is your own serial)
:INFO:SERIAL DS1EBXXXXXXXXX
Switch off the scope then back on and calibrate.
Job Done, you now have a 100Mhz DS1102E
I have tried this software hack with DS1022C without success. Does it mean there isn’t a way to apply the hack to this model?
Anli – I am not aware of a hack for the DS1022C. I don’t know if the same weakness in the 1052E applies to any other scopes. I think the DS1052E was the first target because it is common and cheap.
More info about the software hack is here:
http://oreskovic.me/wp/?p=27
Jeff,
Thanks, I have read that blog.
At any case it seems like DS1022C (BTW, it is older and cheaper) has another “right way” (or has not it at all). Say, :INFO:MODEL? returns nothing, ‘:IO:TEST ABC’ also returns nothing (*IDN?, :INFO:SERIAL? do work – so connection is OK).
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