Have searched as presume there must be a topic on this somewhere. There's a few on KLOV but I can't find much here. As someone wanting to take my pcb repair skills forward and accepting its hard to source a 9010a plus pods, what are the alternatives out there that can perform the same testing functions?
Fluke 9010a alternative
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Retromanic2
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You said that you looked on klov,but did you read through this post from Fred.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/fpga-cat-box.472988/
On here there is Slice a logic probe plus.look through the sections,not sure which one.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/threads/fpga-cat-box.472988/
On here there is Slice a logic probe plus.look through the sections,not sure which one.
There's a repro 9010a and pods, a South American seller sells the pcbs on ebay. A repro that uses a raspberry pi, there's a thread on klov about it.
There's also the Slice https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/slice-a-logic-probe-on-steroids.60738/ which is very different to the 9010a but a lot more useful imo.
I own a 9010a and have used it to repair boards but it is a little overhyped as a lot of times you cannot access the area of the board where the fault is from the cpu directly. Depending on what boards you want to repair it also costs a LOT to own all the different cpu pods.
The Slice on the other hand you can clip directly onto suspect rams / ttl and test them.
There's also the Slice https://www.ukvac.com/forum/threads/slice-a-logic-probe-on-steroids.60738/ which is very different to the 9010a but a lot more useful imo.
I own a 9010a and have used it to repair boards but it is a little overhyped as a lot of times you cannot access the area of the board where the fault is from the cpu directly. Depending on what boards you want to repair it also costs a LOT to own all the different cpu pods.
The Slice on the other hand you can clip directly onto suspect rams / ttl and test them.
OK thanks guys. I have seen Slice and the KLOV equivalent posts but it seems I need to revisit. Think I underestimated the capability of both as I thought it was just a PC based chip tester and couldn't read the cpu and address lines etc. I'll have a proper look at Slice and hopefully read some repair logs that have used it. Sounds like it might be exactly what I want I.e. something that isn't a 9010a goes beyond what a logic probe and oscilloscope can do.
Not sure if this is of any help. I spoke with the guys at the VCFe in Zurich last year, what they were doing was very impressive.
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/th...a-microsystem-troubleshooter-emulator.503305/
https://forums.arcade-museum.com/th...a-microsystem-troubleshooter-emulator.503305/
That does look good......Can't work it out - would you still need the original fluke pods?
From what I remember, and what it shows in their YouTube video, they're using repro'd pods.
NivagSwerdna
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I know this probably isn't helpful but I built my own...
It's just a 5V microprocessor that can tickle all the lines, very much along the lines of the Arduino ICT project which can be found here somewhere.
It does pretty much everything a Fluke pod can do (and a few extra things) but doesn't have the voltage protection a pod does and obviously uses emulation for the base processor rather than swapping a real one in.
It's just a 5V microprocessor that can tickle all the lines, very much along the lines of the Arduino ICT project which can be found here somewhere.
It does pretty much everything a Fluke pod can do (and a few extra things) but doesn't have the voltage protection a pod does and obviously uses emulation for the base processor rather than swapping a real one in.
Nice! Looks like it does all the 8-bit CPUs, too. Is it Open Source?
NivagSwerdna
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Not yet. But I will open source it when I have time to tidy it up. I use edge pins so its not easily reproduceable in its current form.
This looks really, REALLY interesting! I use the arduino ict quite regularly but I'm missing the skill to do the arduino coding. So I mostly use the windows version, and this has helped me out on several repairs with the z80, even though it quite often crashes the windows gui and the memory test is buggy and only allows 1 test before greying out and I have to restart all. Also it doesn't really work for me with the 6809.
If this does what I think it does and covers the z80, the 6502 and the 6809 it is now on the top of my wish list!
I you need someone with a lot of boards for testing the device just let me know and I'm in...
Go to Youtube and search for 'Jerry Walker Fluke 9010A', there are many videos relating to the Fluke 9010A. He also developed some reproduction PODs and sells bare PCBs. But he stopped selling them on Ebay, so you have to go to his website to purchse:
https://jmprecision.co.uk/shopping/start.php?browse=1&cat=30&=SID
I think the reproduction of the 9010A itself isn't finished yet, but there are also (great) videos about this on his channel.
https://jmprecision.co.uk/shopping/start.php?browse=1&cat=30&=SID
I think the reproduction of the 9010A itself isn't finished yet, but there are also (great) videos about this on his channel.