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A project log for HP437B power meter teardown

HP437B power meter examination

keithKeith 02/23/2024 at 02:120 Comments

Front view:

Rear view:

Bottom view, feet;

Two screws were hidden under the round calibration labels.

Bottom view, two rear screws hidden under the feet:

Side view, pull the sticky bits off:

Complete top board:

Ooh look, a 68B09E. The 63B40 is a programmable timer module serial I/O and the two 63B21 provide parallel I/O.

I don't know what the 80C51 microcontroller does. Maybe helps manage the front panel?

The oscillator is 16 MHz.

ROM (8k), RAM (8k HN27C64) and the IEEE interface:

The intel P8291A is the IEEE488 talker/listener interface, the DS75160AN and DS75161AN are the buffers in standard 0.3" wide DIP (unlike the Texas Instruments buffers).

I don't know what the logic chips below the CPU do.

The battery is a very healthy 3.45 volts.

Underneath is the analogue board. The two metal cans shield the RF stuff.

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