Brooks (@bscharff) notified me that the scope is in it’s last mile. Means it’s out for delivery for today!
Thanks for your patience as this scope is in high demand and hard to get.
I will bring it in on Thursday.
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Once the new scope comes in will there be a class taught on how to use it properly?
Actually there are. We have several that were waiting on a second scope.
http://dallasmakerspace.org/calendar/
Test Equipment 101, Sat April 11th, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Intro to Oscilloscopes, Wed, April 15, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
I just ordered that exact scope from http://www.tequipment.net/Rigol/DS1054Z/Digital-Oscilloscopes/ for $399. I already have the Rigol DS1102E, but this new DS1054 is a bargain that I couldn’t resist. Now what is needed is a logic analyzer.
I hope you get it quickly. Some places are taking 11 weeks. We ordered it direct from Rigol and it took at least a month.
I ordered it two weeks ago and it is scheduled for shipment tomorrow. With a little luck I will get it Friday. The company I ordered it from said that they can’t keep them in stock and they go out as quickly as they come in.
I talked with people from TEquipment and they said they order 100 at a time and they sell out within a day. You must have planned it perfectly.
The scope has arrived, for now the scope will be stored in the Server Room. @Raymond & @cottjr will be using it to prepare for their classes. There are some time limited features (<30 hours) that I want them to be able to show you in those classes if need be.
I have tried the IC2 and SPI decode and it’s seriously cool to see the scope convert the data to ASCII or HEX.
The classes are:
Test Equipment 101, Sat, April 11, 1:00pm – 2:30pm in the Pillar Room
Intro to Oscilloscopes, Wed, April 15, 7:30pm – 9:00pm in the Lecture Hall
Please attend these classes as they will give you the basics to get started. After the classes we will move the scope to the e-lab and you can use it as you need for your projects.
I have linked the User Guide and Datasheet on the Electronics Committee Page
NOTE: Please do not jailbreak the scope. We are working with the local Rigol Distributor to upgrade the scope and permanently unlock the other features.
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I don’t know if you have, but you might want to attach a small physical note on it in case people don’t notice this thread.
I’ve been working with Daryl in A/V for several weeks on the idea that we will be assisting in recording classes. As I conceptualize this idea, you would let A/V know that you have a class to record, and they would help you with the equipment to do it. It would be great if we could get a special equipment training session specifically for recording and training, but recording the classes is a great start, too.
Yeah we probably have to be overly obvious.
I put a label on it saying: “DO NOT JAILBREAK SCOPE”
And a label to remind: Less Than 300 Volts to the inputs
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It’s here! Two weeks and Two days from order to delivery (assuming this isn’t an empty box) 
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I’m interested in unlocking more features in my Rigol also. What features would I get and what is the cost?
BTW, if anyone is in the market for one of these scopes, www.tequipment.net list that they have 190 of them in stock as of this morning 04/11/15. That is where I got mine for $399
Thanks to @Lampy @markbolla and all the similar posts of this thread, I realized a sudden need for a scope too, knew where to get it, and where it was in inventory. And thanks to @cottjr for his class yesterday evening, I even knew how to use it.
I’d been measuring some firmware performance I’d written using less effective means and needed something better, just as @markbolla announced the TE inventory.
Pulled it out of the box tonight and I’ve already re-written the code and I’ve already doubled the performance on the firmware. Thanks!
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Congrats @MichaelPursifull ! well done !
and thanks! - you’ve made my day!
By the way, you’ll note that the yellow signal has a kind of spikey looking transitions. Probably those are not real. That might be one example of the waaay to generic term “grounding issue”. You may want to check that the ground clip is tied to your circuit fairly close to the signal you’re trying to measure. Sometimes long wires without impedence controls like twisted pair or coax can cause fast signals to ring on the edges. And sometimes signals ring even with impedence controls…
If shortening the ‘ground loop’ doesn’t help, then RTM 
(read the manual) and look for “probe compensation”.
If you want to make precise measurements with accurate trace representation, you’ll want to check & adjust probe compensation, at least any time you put a different probe on a different scope channel…
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EXCELLENT. “I love the smell of Scope probes in the morning” - Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, Apocalypse Now
As a note to all users, please try to keep the OEM probes with the scope.
Although we have some 200 MHz probes in the batch somewhere.