[volt-nuts] John Miles' GPIBKIT - how to get it? Re: volt-nuts Digest, Vol 66, Issue 15

[Eric Garner]

the GPIBKIT has it's homepage here:

http://www.ke5fx.com/gpib/readme.htm



-eric



On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:14 AM, new <pitts7 at williams-net.com> wrote:

> I find no 'search' function on here... How do you get to
> the GPIBKIT ?
> Willy
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> On 2/20/2015 12:00 PM, volt-nuts-request at febo.com wrote:
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>>     1. Fluke 725 and 726 (pa4tim at gmail.com)
>>     2. Re: 3458a BASIC commands for today??? (cfo)
>>     3. What do the NIST numbers on a calibration sheet come from and
>>        what do they mean? (John Phillips)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:16:56 +0000
>> From: <pa4tim at gmail.com>
>> To: volt-nuts <volt-nuts at febo.com>
>> Subject: [volt-nuts] Fluke 725 and 726
>> Message-ID: <54e624f2.edcdb40a.2362.1fdf at mx.google.com>
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>> Can someone help me with 2 Fluke service manuals or schematics fot the
>> 725 and 726 proces calibrators ?
>>
>>
>> I have here for repair a Fluke 725 that has a fried ADC. It has been to a
>> Fluke dealer for repair and you do not want to know how bad that job is
>> done. (missing pads and traces , cold solderjoints, , a relais facing the
>> wrong way, the -5V from the 4053 tied to gnd, a damaged resistor etc. )
>> I'm 100% sure the ADC is dead and 95%  that is the only problem left but
>> have not ordered a replacement yet because I hope for a manual so I can
>> check the rest for hidden supprises caused by the dealer.
>>
>>
>> The 726 from the same customer that came in this week only has a TC
>> problem.  I traced the TC output to an opamp and analog switch. In TC mV
>> mode he measures it correct but in K mode ( I only haver K TC's ) or any
>> other TC's except for N, he shows the letter of the TC so that part works.
>> But no value in derees.
>>
>> As far as I can gues the ADC measures the voltage, and the software does
>> the conversion. But in that case it is weird it measures and displays the
>> voltage correct. So I think there must be some switching before the ADC but
>> I can not find it. I get stuck at the opamp.
>>
>> and ADC because they are hidden behind the display making it hard to
>> measure. I use a lab powersupply and an extender cable to the keypad but
>> the display uses those bloody zebrastrips.
>>
>>
>> A lot of the repairs I do are older, rather exotic gear with missing
>> schematics/service doc so I'm used to finding my own wayvbut I'm not that
>> masochistic, so I prefer to use documentation.
>>
>>
>> Fred
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>> Schneider electronics repair bv
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>> www.schneiderelectronicsrepair.nl
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>> www.pa4tim.nl
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 19:35:38 +0000 (UTC)
>> From: cfo <xnews5 at luna.dyndns.dk>
>> To: volt-nuts at febo.com
>> Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] 3458a BASIC commands for today???
>> Message-ID: <mc5dua$7ck$1 at ger.gmane.org>
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>> On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 04:23:07 +0000, Mark Sims wrote:
>>
>>  IF you have a GPIB interface,  download the GPIBKIT package from John
>>> Miles' web site.  It now contains my HP3458 cal ram dumper program.  It
>>> will extract the cal info from the NVRAM,  make a backup binary image of
>>> the cal ram chip ,  and dump a formatted and commented listing of the
>>> cal data.
>>> The binary data file can be used to program a replacement NVRAM chip
>>> when the battery in the old chip dies and you need to replace it...
>>> saving you a buncha bucks for a re-calibration of the instrument.
>>>
>> I did a "linux-gpib" "addon lib" that fakes a few parts of GPIBKIT , so
>> you can use Mark's/PHK's program , and i mailed the source to Mark.
>>
>>
>> /CFO
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 12:06:22 -0800
>> From: John Phillips <john.phillips0 at gmail.com>
>> To: Discussion of precise voltage measurement <volt-nuts at febo.com>
>> Subject: [volt-nuts] What do the NIST numbers on a calibration sheet
>>         come from and what do they mean?
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