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pcb diagonise with multi meter ?

December 23rd, 2012, 14:22

hello ,

so i have some PCBs , some that works , and some not .
when i thought with an idea , i connected each to the power supply and measured the DC voltage between each on the four motor pins , and i found that some givving between 4-7 volts , while other givving 1 or less volts , "two PCBs are idintical the first gave 4-7 volts and the other gave less than 1 volts"


i know this is much more complicated ,but can i consider this test a PCB primary test to dinstinguish between working and burned PCB " if no burn marks or smell in remarkable" ?
"not considering firmware problems and other PCB failures"

Re: pcb diagonise with multi meter ?

December 24th, 2012, 11:29

Multimeter is not good enough (pulsating voltages),
Try with an ossiloscope
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