Months of RTB2004 experience in 8 minutes - Rohde & Schwarz Oscilloscope

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This awesome oscilloscope does it all. I've shown it in every major video in last months and now I thought I'd make another compressed overview video. As a mixed signal oscilloscope it has 4 analog channels, 16 digital channels and an FFT function that is almost as good as a GHz spectrum analyzer. But my favorite features are in the software: It boots quickly, has fantastic usability and a browser-based remote control!
I've carefully repeated the fact that I have to send it back, because some German bureaucrats seem to be sending out cease and desist orders for illegal advertising. I have never been paid for a review video, but when a sponsored product is worth more than 1000 EUR it would be considered payment.

[@Speglritz]

The creative jokes + legit electronics content is a fantastic combination. You've made me laugh so many times.

[@remy-]

Who said Germans don’t have humor haha

[@Afrotechmods]

You are hilarious!

[@reps]

I've gotta leave Germany asap, or there will be no hilariousness left in a few years. Canada seems quite nice ...? :)

[@gH0st768]

Wild Afrotechmods appeared!

[@SianaGearz]

Uh, i don't catch your drift Marco. And nice to see you alive, Afro.

[@mzaphod64]

Siana Gearz Me neither.. I'm a new subscriber so, maybe you could push him to explain what he ment 🙄😐 Come on, you do it. I'm gonna wait here.

[@SianaGearz]

OK Mzaphod Bibl, behold as i switch to our secret language that only 80 million people will understand, unless they know how to use the Internet. Ja Marco, nur so unter uns, von einem echten Deutschen im Norden, zu einer miserablen Fälschung im Süden, was war denn gemeint? Ich steh echt auf dem Schlauch!

[@DownTownDowns]

Your content is addicting. Just discovered you today and this must be the 30th video I've seen. Never stop

[@swandonovan]

pretty nails

[@markgreco1962]

Swan Donovan I was thinking the same at 2:10

[@TheDutyPaid]

I wonder what they call a French manicure in Germany?

[@reps]

Did you know that these artificial nails are delivered with plain old super glue? Barbaric! I still have some left on my nails now ...

[@DevilsHandyman]

I'm incapable of using CA glue without getting it all over my fingers. One day I will have to wear mittens because gloves won't fit.

[@swandonovan]

a razor or sharp knife works best for taking it off imo

[@mortenlund1418]

This is great - I am a fan of your humor - and now a subscriber. Thanks.

[@Manawyrm]

Very looking forward to the UART OLED replacement for the Keithley meter. :)

[@PiperFishing]

Such a great mix of humor and knowledge. Love it.

[@timelschner8451]

very nice video, as always! keep it up Marco!

[@ps-ri2qk]

Love the knowledge and humor in your videos; subscribed! Be sure to wear face/eye/body protection before electrically destroying stuff! An amazing scope with serious capabilities, now I have to watch more of your videos with that scope in them.

[@The.Doctor.Venkman]

Great video and very informative - thank you. The explosion made me jump in my chair :-) I need to watch your other videos with the speakers turned down.....

[@sciencebeartimberwoods7610]

Awesome scope and awesome video.

[@daveblane6442]

A genius, and funny as hell! Marco! you are the man!

[@mennims]

6:19 did not go unnoticed, very nice transition

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

Marco Reps, world is better place with you in it.

[@karsnoordhuis4351]

The thing this scope would benefit from is probably a faster reacting gui so the touchscreen feels a bit more natural. It is a step in the right direction imo

[@reps]

Yes, you are right, it doesn't quite have that "modern smartphone snappiness"

[@joelw781]

Loved the video....I'm hoping R&S equips you will each new scope they have!

[@minkorrh]

There is something about humour combined with a deadpan German accent that is amazingly funny. I come to learn and laugh. Thanks Marco. I can only imagine that scope costs as much as a compact car....it really is amazing with the features it has and I'm pretty much in kindergarten when it comes to this.

[@PhG1961]

I can imagine your sadness when you need to turn this wonderfull device in. Great video as usual and very entertaining.

[@BrunoPOWEEER]

Hahaha love your humor mate, I'm always here watching your videos. I particularly loved the explosion part for some reason + the blackout + the crickets in the background hahaha I'm still using my Rigol MSO for logic analyser functions, its basic but kinda does the job. First time I saw your R&S scope I was kinda jealous I have to admit haha I was like "WTFFFFFF $$$$$$" hahaha I can fee your sadness returning it...

[@reps]

"WTFFFFFF $$$$$$" is probably the normal reaction, but I bet you can do 99% of everything with a Rigol MSO too

[@lolapplesauce]

Marco Reps, I can't tell if these older videos are more or less unhinged than the more recent ones you've made

[@JelleStappers]

Great video! Very informative and funny like always :D

[@brettus9115]

Blowing shit up got an instant thumbs up from me! (along with the snicker...)

[@xDevscom_EE]

Love your vids, man :)

[@reps]

I love them too ... uhm I mean thank you, means a lot :)

[@MCsCreations]

It certainly looks awesome!

[@gusbisbal9803]

Great video... and you're current wielding Savage... god bless ya.

[@sykskysyk]

Can't wait to see the Keithley OLED screen replacement!

[@davelister796]

Pretty good, and you didn't even blow-up the scope. Two thumbs up. (You're always entertaining :-)

[@OneBiOzZ]

i have used a DSLogic logic analyzer for a bit now, the website was jankey but it came and is a fantastic bit of kit and compatible with open source software and value for features ... its quite good

[@aaronlow1977]

I have to agree with the vid and comments that R&S equipment is top notch. I use R&S almost exclusively in my lab. I haven't found any piece of theirs that doesn't work as expected. I have had many pieces of Agilent/Keysight stuff that is junk in comparison. I purchased two inexpensive function generators and one display backlight didn't work and one knob didn't work directly from the factory. I have also used the E444x series spectrum analyzers and they are horribly inaccurate and drift badly untill they warm up for a few hours. Every R&S spectrum analyzer I have used is stable and accurate even after a cold start. There stuff is more expensive than Keysight and generally have a slightly odd UI, but their performance is phenomenal. I have two RTO series scopes and they have the best performance of any scope I have ever used.

[@bardenegri21]

And finally a video where someone pronounces the name properly :D

[@stephanc7192]

Love your videos

[@RemcoStoutjesdijk]

Pro tip: no drinking of any liquids whilst watching this video. I still have some in my nose and need to clean my monitor. Loving the understated humour here.

[@SianaGearz]

Humans consists to about 60% out of water, so be thankful that you were drinking and lost that rather than the liquid that already became fully absorbed by your body.

[@John_Smith__]

Great video and indeed a Rohde & Schwarz can not be a bad osciloscope ... very nice video and short review.

[@deltalima1610]

Actually it is the worst I have ever seen. DC department is great, but they do not have an idea of scopes.

[@VovinAtreides]

Loved the nails :D Great scope shame they didn't put in the 50 ohm termination and better maths like their older offerings had.

[@KeanM]

Thanks for the summary (& laughs). I just ordered my RTB2K-COM4 & carry case, instead of the Rigol MSO4034 I had planned to get. The local R&S sales rep brought one out to my office for a trial, but it was pretty quick so good to hear from you and others the good & bad. While I love the large display, I am not sure I like the touchscreen, so I think I'm going to try it with a wireless mouse. I just wish I could have justified the cost for a RTM3000 and get the extra decodes and math functions (and speed).

[@reps]

Good to hear, Commander Kean :) (I too am lusting after an RTM3000 now)

[@sarkasaa]

what happened to the electronic load you made in an earlier video?

[@TheBauwssss]

Is the OLED display upgrade for the fading keithley fluorescent display out yet? I looked through all your videos posted after this one, but I couldn't find it 🥺

[@nickstanley5064]

Marco reps, did you use a 1X or 10X probe when you were measuring the bipolar power supply's noise?

[@JPK90]

Where to get such nice oled display?

[@ahocan100]

dude where is the keithley video ???

[@stephanc7192]

Who is the nail model?

[@robber576]

The plastic frontcover is also an option, i have some r&s gear and the gear is fantastic but like a mercedes; in basic configuration it is somewhat affordable but once you start adding nessescary options the price goes rapidly up, even for stupid options like a cheap plastic cover or a nylon bag.

[@vincei4252]

R&S MAke fabulous gear. Have new stuff and picked up quite a few used gems on eBay too. Worth every penny :)

[@antoespiga]

KZbin automatic subtitles interpreted Rohde & Schwarz as Hold on Farts. I think a brand name upgrade is in order.

[@RobB_VK6ES]

Dude I'd be leaving town with this :)

[@jvandervyver]

I couldn't help but notice that you hit 30A when PSU blew. According to the panel meter it was supplying 30v at that time.

[@avejst]

Thank you for sharing :-)

[@WaltonPete]

Thought I'd have a look at pricing for this beast and it's £3,795 from Farnell. Possibly a little too much for me to spend on a scope given my infrequent use. I think I'll stick with my Farnell own brand (Tenma) one for the time being!

[@jamesbennettmusic]

What was the synthesiser you've had for a long time? It looked like a Synclavier controller but I'm not sure if it is?

[@reps]

Almost right! DK Synergy II

[@EdwinFairchild]

R&S changed their mailing address to Florida , USA , message me and ill send you the address :)

[@reps]

What, again? I just got a message that they moved to a rural area in Russia ...

[@Anvilshock]

Next thing they'll move to Nigeria and become royalty and now really really really really really need your valued help to release their 10000 units of RTB2004 from their recently deceased uncle's withheld warehouse lot or somesuch ...

[@SimoWill75]

No sorry, there's been a terrible mixup, US was last week. This week it should be returned to R&S in Australia, pm me for the address.

[@hyperhektor7733]

my latest information is that their headquarter is based in Nigeria

[@kefler187]

It doesn't have a youtube app? What good is it as a mobile device then?!

[@paulpillau5858]

Where did you find that OLED display?

[@reps]

MCOT256064C1Y-GM

[@pa4tim]

I have a HMO3522, for 7 years my daily use scope. I still like it but I like the touchscreens from the new models. I also bought the LA but without the protocol decoders. Are they still so stupid expensive ? (I bought a zero-plus, comes with over 120 free protocols) I now use the HMO's LA to check things like the order in which relais switch in a secutest. Funny review, i liked it.

[@reps]

Yeh, it's all quite pricey, but so is the competition. As you said, 97.5% of things can be done with older hardware

[@tHaH4x0r]

Wish I had the money for one. Super sexy scope. Oh yeah, it might be worth noting in the video that poking around with a mains earth referenced scope in a switching power supply can yield less than favorable results if you dont know what you are doing haha.

[@Graham_Wideman]

4:05 How does this scope with 300MHz bandwidth manage to perform an FFT (presumably using a "math" function on CH1 input) with a result at 868MHz (let alone 2.4GHz)?

[@kti5682]

Oversampling is the answer. The bandwidth is the filter bandwidth not the Nyquist bandwidth. You can actually measure signals outside the passband but they will be attenuated. I suspect they used a low order filter with good passband flatness to give you accurate results in the passband.

[@SayumiMichishige21]

"Explosive PSU" from "Banggood" these words match perfectly together, depending on the project(budget) it will be used for, i would not consider buying a low end PSU. i would go for a MEAN WELL PSU for example

[@advertslaxxor]

Pretty sick scope. I agree that that the touchscreen is nice for menus, but knobs are just less fuss for precise work. Maybe now they will send you a non-demo unit, with maybe a few more 0s in the model # :-)

[@MasterIvo]

still Very happy with mine

[@FryChicken]

How lucky is that UI, holy shit!

[@mrcpu9999]

What voice synthesizer software are you using? Love the videos.

[@tookitogo]

I think it was LiveGerman 2018™

[@NeverTalkToCops1]

Dieter Talk 5

[@euclidallglorytotheloglady5500]

I've been trying to pretend to be satisfied with my Rigol DS1102D.. 😕 which I guess I am, I just need to make the logic adapter for it. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay more for it than I did for the scope to begin with.

[@toddanonymous5295]

Marco, I think R&S should let you keep the scope. Your videos would be a great advertisement for their fine product.

[@procactus9109]

Did that wire in the jar of water come from the electron enema of that gold resistor ?

[@reps]

Nope, that's constantan wire which has a very thin isolation layer. I guess that rubbed off and shorted the wire somewhere

[@procactus9109]

I don't think that wire is insulated

[@BrianLough]

Could I ask what is potentially a pretty dumb question, but what would the advantages of something like this over USB logic analyzers be? (other than the awesome scope, but just from a logic analysis point of view) Great video as always, but the amount of Flamingoos in the video was disappointingly low

[@RemcoStoutjesdijk]

Real-time trigger, display and update. The USB ones just do a single capture on a trigger condition. Then again, they can store almost indefinitely. Each has their own purpose.

[@superdau]

If you are capturing simple UART, not much. But if you need to trigger on an analog voltage for example that's somewhere else in the circuit and want to capture some digital data around that that trigger and see the analog waveform, you will need something like this scope.

[@pu1ypj]

The worst part is always sending back the equipment, indeed, what's the part number of that nice OLED display you're going to use?

[@reps]

MCOT256064C1Y-GM

[@SidneyCritic]

Maybe try Keysight's Wave 2018 giveaway.

[@felenov]

Why not control this scope 20Km away using LoRaWAN

[@3D_Printing]

1:06 look like that packing could make some sound proofing

[@Cedillallidec]

That strut at 1:11....priceless

[@mr.amp0076]

When next video coming?

[@reps]

Another product video very soon. For the next big DIY project I am waiting for PCBs

[@MrGTAfan93]

I almost taught i'm watching an EloectoBoom video because of these explosions :D

[@snooks5607]

same. thought I clicked on the wrong link

[@weerobot]

Wow RTB2004 Beauty...

[@TheDefpom]

I tried approaching R&S about review units, they said they would discuss it and get back to me, they didn’t, so I guess my 3000 subs isn’t big enough for them yet LOL.

[@reps]

But you'll get there soon, your content is very good

[@TheDefpom]

Marco Reps - thank you.

[@danijel124]

What car do you drive?

[@reps]

Volvo S60

[@MazeFrame]

5:53 The most important tool I always have with me? A flash light!

[@nyceyes]

Okay, send this one back and the company should send and allow you to keep their next, newer version, which you'll use but not demo. 😊

[@m4nuz]

Hey Marco, what did you study? I'm very impressed of your work and skills, soon i start to study mechatronics... hope i can build someday things like you :D

[@reps]

Computer Science, not recommended :)

[@First2ner]

haha honest answer!

[@thewhitedragon4184]

Marco Reps what do you recommend?

[@succuvamp_anna]

If I was the person over at the company I would have just said keep it, you obviously love it. Maybe give you a super discount code lol idk

[@berberger4814]

5:18 that laughter

[@OndrejPopp]

Vertical section, top knob is missing the label "position". Ok, now I want a discount!

[@DoctorThe113]

Why don't you like keysight better than rohde and schwarz

[@legobuildingsrewiew7538]

WHATS WITH THE NAILS

[@cheewurz]

Ooooh...THAT would Look Great on MY Bench!

[@GaborGubicza]

Tell me about it ... XD

[@tablatronix]

wow that oled!

[@I3urnHard]

hmmmm those canon 3ccd camcorder are treats. very nice.

[@DanielRowe]

Wow they should let you keep it. Be best advertising they can buy.

[@dejanzdravkovic9010]

You gott a beautiful nails by the way 👍

[@atta30]

5:14 is it just me or does everyone else nervously laugh like he did after everything electric you explode

[@Dirtyharry70585]

5:53 sparky got out! lmao!!

[@scowell]

Stepping on ElectroBOOM territory now!

[@ovalwingnut]

*RTB2004* Nice! The last time I spotted a piece of equipment that fine... I was stepping out of the shower _dripping_ _wet_ . Just saying. Cheers!

[@38911bytefree]

LOL at the final explosion (It wasnt my fault this time).

[@karicowo]

plop

[@nielsencs]

Lovely manicure; I assume you're a guitarist? ;)

[@felixdietzCGN]

C‘mon, R&S, just let him keep it!

[@Arek_R.]

Talking about repairs. I got owon oscilloscope, boot process doesn't finish, just start image and nothing else, hardware looks to be fine, I think that firmware is corrupted and has to be rewritten, ofc asians don't want to send me it...

[@reps]

Did it work before? Did a firmware update start the problem? You could try to find a serial port on the mainboard and see what the bootloader has to say for himself ...

[@Arek_R.]

Well I got it from ebay from seller that handles crap from some store. This scope was returned by customer as faulty. Excellent condition would suggest that it was dead on arrival. First thing I did - turned it on, effect: few seconds nothing >> dsiplay turns on and displays "welcome" picture for like 10 seconds >> here it should enter the UI but instead it turns black for few seconds and then again picture and repeats over and over Inside it looks completly fine, checked all power rails and they're fine, nothing overheating, but also main processors are warm after some time, so they're doing something. As far as I can tell, the hardware is completly fine, but for some reason it doesn't enter the UI. It has XC6SLX9 FPGA processor for main work and some samsung cmos for handling the display, which clearly does it's job. I also tried pressing these processors during turning on, to see if there are some bad connections as these are BGA packages, and also heating them up to like 70*C, it changes nothing. Then I saw on EEVblog2 vid about siglent generator which just failed like that, extremly similar problem, in second video he fixed it jsut by uploading new firmware with uSD. vids: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXyYn5V5lMl1jc0 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qn6Vm2ywqqeciLM Where I should look for the serial port?

[@rickgraham8701]

Those brick walls look like "Catacombs"

[@ELECTROGYAN]

5:19 take care bro❤️ #ElectroGyan

[@Professzore]

What the hack... 10-ish AWG wire for 10 A at 35 V... Whoaaaa.... I now can clearly see that RTB 2004 may have a much better place on my bench...

[@masterluu8]

"But I'd be happy to work with R&S hardware again in the future" *Hint* *Hint*