Author Topic: Quadchek II 7564SA - Electrical Safety Compliance Analyzer  (Read 5944 times)

Mr Eastwood

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Picked this up the other day, it powers up but doesn't seem to produce any output when I tested it on relatively low output settings.

(edit:  The big blue Guenther 3392 reed relays are rated at 10,000 volts VAC)
« Last Edit: May 05, 2016, 03:50:48 PM by Mr Eastwood »
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Re: Quadchek II 7564SA - Electrical Safety Compliance Analyzer
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2016, 03:31:24 PM »
Most of the boards inside looked really well laid out,  those HV cables and caps scare the hell out of me though - lol
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Re: Quadchek II 7564SA - Electrical Safety Compliance Analyzer
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2016, 02:55:47 AM »
Cable is way conservative, it is rated for 40kV, and the standoff rings are a common TV part to psace the 35kV EHT away from things, but here they likely only go to 6kV or so, Most PAT is 2kV for 30 seconds, so they really went overboard. Toroid looks like it is the mains input and the big paper wound transformer is probably the EHT step up transformer, with the big board of darlington transistors driving it. 7 in parallel with current sharing resistors, and only a low power driver and that size heatsink with fan definitely means they get quite warm.

But soldering in the 3 push connection relays, instead of simply using a few short fly leads, means it is going to be hard to replace one when they do fail. QC 12 12 12 either is the checker number (12) or it was made in December 2012, but then this is a really old design to not have done the change to SMD on the main boards to reduce at a minimum the component cost.

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Re: Quadchek II 7564SA - Electrical Safety Compliance Analyzer
« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2017, 08:09:16 AM »
Since I posted this I've had this on my worktop just taking up space;  so I thought I take another look at it so, it turns out all you need to get it running is to insert an interlock into the back;  I didn't have one, so I just shorted a couple of pins at the back, and to my surprise it seems to work.     The pic shows a low current 3A AC test source I setup as I don't have any proper leads;  I'll have to try and source some leads now it's working.
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Re: Quadchek II 7564SA - Electrical Safety Compliance Analyzer
« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2017, 12:07:30 PM »
Nice that, it should be a good bit of gear for use to test new to you equipment.

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Re: Quadchek II 7564SA - Electrical Safety Compliance Analyzer
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2017, 04:43:14 PM »
I thought I would try the DC Withstand this afternoon so I hooked up a 68V TVS diode and set it to 80V DC with a leakage limit of 1mA (as per datasheet test current);  then hooked up my DMM set to max mode, and that seemed to work out really nice.  I did try it the other way as it was a bi-directional one and got the same 68V;   very nice for £38 delivered on Ebay  :-)





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