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  • EasyGoing1
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    Also, the way that these two caps are sitting next to this blue thing that is right next to the microcontroller makes me think that the blue thing is a crystal oscillator .... is that correct?

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  • EasyGoing1
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    Originally posted by stj
    i bet the RTC doesnt keep time anymore.
    how the hell do you use it - serial port??
    As a matter of fact, there is an RS-232 chip on the board ...

    Also, I forgot to show this ...

    These are the same ... looks like a voltage regulator...




    Also not sure what this means, but this chip has like a volcano ... zit looking protrusion coming out of it ...

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  • stj
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    i bet the RTC doesnt keep time anymore.
    how the hell do you use it - serial port??

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  • EasyGoing1
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    So I took the circuit board out and as you can see ... several places got damaged by excessive current draw ... the side by side is the board flipped against itself so you can see that one side of the board got burnt while the other side didn't except in that one general area.

    The housing has FOUR fans, two on each end... the red and black wires connect those fans and thats all those wires do.





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  • EasyGoing1
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    Originally posted by petehall347
    looks like you found the very slow blow fuse .
    Jokes ... love it!

    Up next ... I removed the circuit board and there are some interesting places on the board with obvious over heating ... even traces where the solder mask is burned off but not even near any component ... ill have pictures soon.

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  • petehall347
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    looks like you found the very slow blow fuse .

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  • EasyGoing1
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    Originally posted by eccerr0r
    No, I'm curious why it's drawing 28W on the 5V line
    Originally posted by stj
    i think you need to check the current on the 12v line.

    it could be mostly using 5v,
    those old AT psu's had mostly 5v output, the 12v was only for the harddrives.
    in that case an ATX is useless because their main output is 12v
    OK, I cracked open the LED panel itself, which turned out to be only 4 screws then slide out the plastic that covers the LEDs and it exposes everything ... as you can see... I saw a problem immediately... You'll have to zoom in on the second picture to see it but the plastic on whatever that DC power connection is, is totally fried off of the wire though the wire is not disconnected.



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  • CapLeaker
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    Nope. ESR meters aka LCR meters are their own, and these functions are not to find in a DMM.

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  • stj
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    it does not do esr, it's a basic compact clamp meter with a 100A limit.
    it's fame is that it can read DC with the clamp with a 1mA resolution!
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  • EasyGoing1
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    Originally posted by stj
    UT210e
    Originally posted by diif
    Yeah, another vote for the UT210e from me.
    Originally posted by CapLeaker
    Uni-T, Bside, Extech, Fluke…
    Could this meter replace my MESR-100 ESR meter? Does it have ESR capability? If so, I could send this one I just bought back and get the UT210E almost at a straight swap - cost wise.

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  • diif
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    Yeah, another vote for the UT210e from me.

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  • CapLeaker
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    Uni-T, Bside, Extech, Fluke…
    The only thing about Uni-T is that you have to make tripple sure it’s the meter you want. Some are doing only DC, not AC, etc. Your better off to go to the official Uni-T website and see what you want, then look for that specific model. Then compare pics etc.

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  • stj
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    UT210e

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  • EasyGoing1
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    Originally posted by stj
    dont you have a DC clamp-meter btw?
    i thought everybody got one when uni-T released the cheap one!
    I don't have a clamp meter ... got a recommendation?

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  • stj
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    maybe the opamp died - easy to diagnose the fault in them.
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  • sam_sam_sam
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    I had one but I did not think it was that cheap but it only lasted a couple of years and then it would not read any dc current anymore

    I just have not bought another one yet but plan on doing this again when I need to have one for something that I can not use my meter for

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  • stj
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    dont you have a DC clamp-meter btw?
    i thought everybody got one when uni-T released the cheap one!

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  • eccerr0r
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    No, I'm curious why it's drawing 28W on the 5V line

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  • EasyGoing1
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    Originally posted by eccerr0r
    Take the lamp apart and see how it's wired. Using that much +5 when +12 is available is kind of weird.
    Are you thinking that might have been a possible cause for the one power supply dying?

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  • eccerr0r
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    Take the lamp apart and see how it's wired. Using that much +5 when +12 is available is kind of weird.

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