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Article #1879Re: Agilent Oscilloscope - ripoff or rebadge?
From: David L. Jones
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 03:12
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 03:12
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On May 2, 8:29 pm, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote: > I just stumbled across these:http://www.welec.de/english/05_products/products_01_overview.htm > German "Welec" brand. > Looks incredibly similar to various Agilent offerings (54600, Infinium etc) > in terms of button shape, location, colour, panel silkscreen, and menu > look'n'feel. > > I know Rigol design and make the low end Agilents, but this appears to be > something different again. > > Plus they are going damn cheap on eBay:http://cgi.ebay.com.au/OSCILLOSCOPE-1-GS-s-200-MHz-2-CH-4-4-VGA-TFT-D... > > $699 for a 200MHz, 1GS/s, 16KB, VGA screen scope. > > Anyone know anything about these? > > Dave. It turns out that Farnell were silly enough to sell older model Wittig/ Welec brand scopes. Even listed in the new 2008 catalog. But conveniently, almost all trace has been wiped from the website. Dave.
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