Sir Khamis . . .
INITIALLY . . . . .
On my prior post upgrade my 10 amp shunt referencing UPWARDS to a 20 amp shunt.
ALSO . . . . .
You did not fully answer my earlier questions.
Tell me your native language . . .Thai ? Arabic ?
What are the I.C.s being used in your meter . . . . as I cannot read them from the photos.
Excepting the bottom left corners LM358 ? which is being a dual op amp, but I will also guess that the mid board 8 pin unit is being the same LM358.
I also might guess that the top 14 pin unit is being a LM324 quad op amp or CMOS HC7014 hex schmitt inverter.
As I said . . .the main portion . . . . ICL7106
Chip On Board. . . . is being a basic 200mv dc voltmeter function . . . . . all of the rest of the DVM are being dedicated function blocks that are switched into circuit and then will feed into that BASIC 200MV DC voltmeter circuitry of the ICL7106.
The input of that 7106 voltmeter circuit is being initially routed through a series R7-1 meg resistor, going into pin 31 with pin 32 as negative ground, so that resistively isolated INPUT is being almost bullet proof ! . . . . . excepting accidental direct
HIGH voltage inputs !
HOWEVER there is also being a critical voltage reference that is needed by the 7106 on its pins 43 and 44.
and Q1 is involved with its B+C and E junctions acting as a "quasi" zener diode across the reference supply.
Now it also happens that Q1 is electrically located right at the very bottom of a string of divider resistors for your higher voltage scales . . . .shifting each higher voltage scale down to a 200MV DC input of the 7106
You said . . . .
Note: checked c13,Q1,Q4,Q5 in circuit - measured shorted completely.
You just read about my suspicions of Q1 and C13 must be shunting across a shorted Q1.
Q4 and Q5 are being interconnected, and also, do note the very nearby REF + - test probe points, routing on up to the 7106..
NOW ! . . . . what are the chances that you erroneously applied a billion millivolts to your meter probes with the function knob being in
. . . . . ¿ whatever position ? . . . . . and thereby, totally crunched Q1, Q4 and Q5 ? . . . . . . C13 sez " HEY! what about me ?" . . . . .well, you just might be all right . . . . . with a new Q1 having been installed. .
ADDITIONALLY . . . .
Look at the building block for transistor HFE test .
EVERYTHING is out of circuit in that test position except that exotic transistor plug in socket and a base biasing resistor pair with HFE read out as a DC reading on the 7106's 200 MV DC input.
Testing 2 NPN and 2 PNP transistors should give 4 uniformly repeatable readings if the 7106 was unaffected . . . . .NOT SO . . . . if the referencing is in error.
Thaaaaaaaasssit . . . . .
73's de Edd . . . . .
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