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Old Fluke Multimeters
GregDunn:
Ordered a parts/broken 8600A last week with the hope of synthesizing a working unit from the two non-working ones. Surprise! After temporarily inserting 5VDC in place of the dead batteries, it came to life and works a treat:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/repair/fluke-8600a-battery-powered-multimeter-convert-to-line-only/
It seems that for me, the "broken" Flukes take little effort to fix, and the "working" ones have complex problems. :-DD
DC1MC:
@GregDunn, lucky you, this never happens on my side, and I was looking for a defective unit, no luck :(.
I've got a couple of ITT relays C93406 MT2 4, hoping that I'll replace the big POS for range selection.
Still looking for a paddle for the power switch.
Cheers,
DC1MC
GregDunn:
They do exist, but it takes some patience; right now there seems to be a shortage of 8800A units of either type, but several 8600A came up recently so I thought I'd work on that side of the collection. Unfortunately, people love to get rid of their Option 01 battery units, which not only are invariably dead but have collateral damage on the PCB from leaky NiCd cells. I want no more of those! Even if the cells don't spew corrosion onto the mainboard, they vent something which oxidizes the circuit traces and connector pins. :-- It's hard enough to troubleshoot some of these without repairing traces and connectors as well.
I've promised myself that as soon as I get as many of the 8600A running as is feasible, I'm going to stop and move on to the 8800As. At least those are free from the battery plague, even if they're missing a current measuring mode.
Neomys Sapiens:
Is there somewhere a published timeline and development relationship of their gear? At least up to the marriage with Philips?
001:
--- Quote from: bd139 on November 04, 2018, 03:58:33 pm ---Bought an 8010A last week. Perhaps unsurprisingly everything on it worked nicely. Was sealed with last cal in 1986! Was rather grubby and horrible though. Have finished the second wave of cosmetric restoration now.
Apart from the yellowing on the case, which is expected for the age it looks like new now.
And I just bought a hooky display matching 8012A to go with it :-DD
Edit: while not a massive fan of the display on these, they do the job well enough.
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Awesome works :-+
Can You told me how "siemens" reading works? When do You use it?
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