My first attempt at a Pimeta. So far so good.
It took me awhile to figure it out, but I couldn't get the LED to light up, but when you leave out the zenier diode for the RFET, you are supposed to solder the RLED leads to the RLED hole that is farther away than the RFET holes.
I made a couple mistakes like puttinf wrong resistors in. I'm very happy with my new Metcal SP440, makes desoldering parts a breeze.
So, I got to testing the power supply. Taking the readings from the batteries (two in series), I get like 17.XX volts and from the various sockets, either nearly the same (17.XX volts) or about half of that (9.XX volts). Does this sound about right?
And at the C2 and C3 electrolytic caps, I get like ~7.34 Volts. Does this look right?
I was going to take the reads again and post all of them, but looks like my DMM is toast.
-Ed
It took me awhile to figure it out, but I couldn't get the LED to light up, but when you leave out the zenier diode for the RFET, you are supposed to solder the RLED leads to the RLED hole that is farther away than the RFET holes.
I made a couple mistakes like puttinf wrong resistors in. I'm very happy with my new Metcal SP440, makes desoldering parts a breeze.
So, I got to testing the power supply. Taking the readings from the batteries (two in series), I get like 17.XX volts and from the various sockets, either nearly the same (17.XX volts) or about half of that (9.XX volts). Does this sound about right?
And at the C2 and C3 electrolytic caps, I get like ~7.34 Volts. Does this look right?
I was going to take the reads again and post all of them, but looks like my DMM is toast.
-Ed