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Offline Simon123Topic starter

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Current clamps repair
« on: March 23, 2014, 07:24:35 pm »
Hello!

I found this piece broken in my current clamps.
What is it?
Looks like, bond wires went to thing in the middle.
 

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Re: Current clamps repair
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2014, 07:29:14 pm »
It was a hall sensor chip, bare silicon that gives a very small differential voltage output that varies according to the magnetic field through the face of the chip. Generally does the DC current sensing side, with a wound call that does the AC field side. Sadly if you do not have a chip wire bonder it is not repairable. Not likely to be easily available as a spare part either. Might come as the complete meter or the complete clamp assembly.
 

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Re: Current clamps repair
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2014, 07:34:36 pm »
Its iskra meter, i bought it cheap on flea market.
At least voltage and resistance measurment is working.
Could i just use hall sensor from fan?
Or modify it to measure AC only?
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Re: Current clamps repair
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2014, 07:44:25 pm »
Hall sensor from fan generally has some conditioning electronics inside. Look at older FDD drive motors, you might find one that has 4 wire hall sensor chips to sense motor drive. A small square black block ( there will be 3 of them connected in parallel on 2 wires and 2 leading to the motor drive chip) under the stator on old 5 1/4 inch drives, and then you can place this on a small board in place of the sensor. May not be accurate any more but probably will work somewhat. Post pics of the main board and the rest of the meter.
 

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Re: Current clamps repair
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2014, 07:57:51 pm »
https://plus.google.com/photos/yourphotos?pid=5994075362018111826&oid=105582581813039352395
3 pictures
Its pretty old-1988(the same brand as Digimer 10.
It had sticker, that it was last calibrated on 2009, but i cant see any new trimmer glue, so they proably just tested it.
It uses intersil 7106 lcd multimeter driver.
« Last Edit: March 23, 2014, 08:01:27 pm by Simon123 »
 

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Re: Current clamps repair
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2014, 02:43:39 pm »
I tried this sensor, but it doesnt work properly.
Current gets close to 5A in 200A position, but A adjust doesnt work and it doesnt measure current.
 


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