No.120 - Voltech PM100 Power Analyzer Repair (2off) 

Well you can't have two repairs easier than that, great finds🙂

Nice to see an ESD mat, every electronics bench should be under one.

Great Video, again. To read BER (Beyond Economical Repair) on top of the device, that's really funny! BER is as well the designator for our infamous "new" Berlin Airport.. which was for many years over budget, over time, and needed a lot of changes / repairs before they could finally open it. A complete fail in Project Management, as politicians again thought, they should interfere and could do it better than companies, engineers, P.M.s. Fraport AG, our biggest, Frankfurt based airport company in Germany basically is doing the same, i.e. building a new terminal III, but they manage to keep the timeline and budget, as far as one can judge from outside. This political interference on technical development / solutions (Energy, Climate Change, ...) is the new German Disease, ruining our whole country.

Those were some nice east repairs!

Dream fixes. I won't say that never happens to me - but it's rare and great when it does.

Modifying these units and fitting a nice tft inside would be nice. Then you can add features like showing graphs und plots.

How lucky you are... Nice fixes !

awesome video yet again Ian. really lucked in there, you seem to find all the good gear to fix, i just checked eBay and there pretty expensive as working units, not parts/repair ones there unfortunately

11:19 i guess that the frontpanel pcb has a little flex and due the years of use ,that ribbon connector get squeezed between the frontpanel and the edge of the mainboard each time the front buttons are used, after time this connector got partially squeezed out.

Connector! Is this the SignalPath? :D

I don't believe the chip was a problem ! How did it make it this far ? and besides it was electrically sound IMHO ! but at the end of the day great video and great result !....cheers.

Well...... That was uneventful.......😂🤣 All they need now's a good scrub! Thanks Ian.!

OK, have to admit I did search for a part 1 before I realised it said "(2off)" and not "(part 2)".

Dang that was so lucky! Are you looking to sell one?

You hit the lucky pot... nice.

Hi Ian, I scored a PM3000A from the scrap bin this year. It had a flat internal battery. It kind of works but as you operate the front panel, the display becomes corrupted. Do you know of any programming software to connect to the instrument?

Hi!

Hi, you're lucky, if I got it, there would at least be parts that jumped out from the board - see. last two purchases. 🤔 how much will you send me one for 😂 Nice day 🙂 Tom

I don't understand that second one Ian? although it looked strange there was nothing wrong with that chip!

2 easy

BER, beware easy repair

Booo! Don't you just hate it when you get an easy fix. 🙂