I don't see a whole lot of encouragement here regarding the possibility of getting my 3455A working.? Maybe I will just put it aside and wait for a scrap unit to swap out boards or parts.? My 3456A still works so I am grateful for that.
Bob
On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, 06:40:17 AM PDT, Chuck Harris <cfharris@...> wrote:
The 3455A was a dinosaur when it was first released.
The 3455A and 3456A were sold side by side, with the 3455A being about twice as expensive as the much more capable 3456A.? The 3455A's interesting feature was it was supposed to be cheap to calibrate.? All you had to do to do a complete calibration was to unplug the module in the back panel, and replace it with a recently calibrated module.? The idea was you could order up a calibration by mail, and return your old calibration module as a core... never having to send the full meter in for calibration.
Interesting idea, but surely not worth twice the price of a 3456A.
I say it was a dinosaur, because it used all small scale logic rather than large highly capable hybrid circuitry, like the 3456A.? It should be much easier to repair, but it should also be much less reliable.
And, that is my experience with the two units.
-Chuck Harris
paul swedberg wrote: > With respect to the 3455 and 3456 the difference is night and day. I have > numbers of 3456s and was given a seriously troubled 3455. Quite a > interesting meter. > Replaced at least 11 actually malfunctioning chips on the logic board. The > logics simple so easy to verify the chips were bad. No shot gunning > involved. Never really did get it working but ended up with a different > 3455 that needed help and the AC board and it is in fine shape. With > respect to the old 3455 it has both a logic and voltmeter issue. The 3455 > uses an unusual processor and teh DVM uses the same proc and a masked eprom > that is known to go bad. It acts as a state machine. > The 3456s are losing there eproms and copies can be found on the net. Thank > heavens. > Regards > Paul > WB8TSL > > > >
