Rigol DG822 functiegenerator reviews

One big advantage is really the absence of forced cooling - Ergo, no fan. Touchscreen operation surprisingly consistent, unlike my Siglent generator. Nice crisp display. Waveforms within limits are quite clean and THD in the lower freq. range even down to 0.02% which is better that in the spec. sheet. Very good requency stability and jitter quite low. One has to keep in mind that extremely low jitter of e.g. <10ps or so in a generator of this price class makes little sense. Nice to have, but managing expectations is also important. One thing I missed though that it does not offer a user selectable delay for its basic waveforms. That would be a nice to have. Formfactor a little "odd" perhaps for some users and harder to stack up to other common shaped generators. However, personally I do not. It is also quite compact. Because of passive cooling better not stack it in a rack or sandwich it. In general recommended.