Hi Bill, C2 is a hermetic tantalum, and doesn't appear leaky. +5V appeared on the mark and stable but C60 (220uF 10V in +5V supply) looked a bit crusty, so I replaced it on general principle with a 220uF 10V tant.
I think that C2 is used to hold off of the reset signal for a period of time after PWDN- is asserted to allow the processor to save stuff to RAM. The ROMS appear all good and were all written pretty recently. Dave -----Original Message----- From: volt-nuts [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of BIll Ezell Sent: 14 April 2016 17:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [volt-nuts] Solartron 7081 randomly re-initialises Repost from my response in the new Solartron group, : >I assume you've eliminated obvious things like power-line spikes? One other >thing comes to mind, the power-up reset logic for the CPU, the RESET >signal. >My schematics are so bad it's hard to tell for sure, but it looks like that's >generated by R6 and C2, along with IC4 on the earthy board. I'd check >C2, if >it's very leaky, could be pulling IC4-1 down enough to give random >triggering. IC6 is a possibility also, IC6-6 is used to also trigger a reset >by >pulling C2 to ground. I'd think if there was enough ripple on the 5V supply to trigger a reset, you'd be seeing other bad things. Regading the nvram, the comments on that are dead-on, my cross post about that: >The cal constants are in a non-volatile ram, it's possible you'll need to >replace that. I've never seen a failure, but I've heard anecdotally that they >can >fail. It's also possible that your meter has been sitting unused for so >long that the nv-ness of the ram has leaked away. >They work by injecting a stored charge into effectively a well-insulated >gate. Over many years, the charge can leak away. That's why there's a rewrite >>cycle the meters can do. I forget what the nvram refresh command is, but it's in the manual. Also, the nvram keeps two separate copies. I thought it would automatically try to read the second copy if the first was bad, and automatically rewrite the bad one. But, if enough charge has leaked, there could be multiple errors across the entire nvram. _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
