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Products => Test Equipment => Topic started by: TomPet54 on July 28, 2018, 12:42:30 pm
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Hi,
I'm a proud owner of a Metrix MX52 multimeter but when I checked it against a Agilent 6,5 digit meter the voltage range was slightly off.
My questioon is: Does anybody know which potentiometer is used inside to correct the meter? I dare not touch anyone in fear of ruining it alltogether.
Hoping for help,
// TomPet54
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Ask Chauvin Arnoux Aka Metrix they sent me calibration software in the past and where very helpful, sometimes the email end in their spam folder, took me a while to receive an answer.
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Just stumbled across the topic looking for other things, so I am aware the answer may be a little late.
MX 50,51,52 do not use software calibration.
If ACV only is off, it's worth checking the electrolytics around the canned AD636 first, then you have trimpots for AC zero and AC gain.
If everything is slightly off start with the Vref trimpot.
If DCV only is off, I can't help you.
For adjustment locations refer to attached photo... good luck.
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Thank you for your help.
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I'm posting here because it seems to be the only topic specific to this model on the forum and I don't want to start a new topic for a seldom seen meter. It should also apply to the MX50 and MX51 models.
I dug my MX52 from whatever was on top of it, pushed the power key to see it blink the display and not want to come back on. Battery measured 2.5V.
Inserting a fresh 6LR61 brought it back instantly, then when I wanted to switch it back off it was stuck on, insisting a while it would turn off sometimes, sometimes came back on by itself.
Current draws measure 1.2 to 4.5mA (The true RMS conversion is greedy!) when on, 9 to 11mA when off!
I replaced both 1µF/35V tantalum drops (one on each PCB), power switching Transistor Q1 (BC857B marking "3F") on main PCB and capacitor discharge transistor Q13 (BC847B marking "1F") on display PCB under LCD. Both were in low melting temperature plastic packages.
I'm not saying it's fixed, only time will tell for sure.
Standby current draw is now down to the 10-20nA range.