I am planning to build an small external scanner for DMMs.
Since I often measure 3, 4, sometimes 5 digits, for which you can of course also use 3, 4, 5 different DMMs (so far ...) but in the long run,
so the thought came to me that my bench DMM would also log that might prefer.
(Of course I could have bought my last Bench DMM with a scanner card, but unfortunately I missed that ...).
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First of all, everything is thought of except current measurement, i.e. voltage, resistance, frequenzy in low range,
(maybe or if current, then actually only for the max. a few hundred mA range).
I already have the hardware of the measurement / signal path in mind (decent solution with high-quality SDS relay contacts).
A small box with an external DC plug power supply. Input sockets for the DMM 4mm standard, the individual channels 2mm sockets
(I mostly use 2mm cutlery with clamps for the circuits).
You still need a timer with which you can set the following:
Cycle and pause times of the channels (relays), the possibility of reducing the number of channels
(unused channel relays should not appear unnecessarily in the order).
As an optical display on the box which channel is currently active, either a led 7 segment, or even more clearly 5 individual led in 5 different colors.
Now there is also no "detection" in the log data which e.g. Voltage of which channel is.
As a current solution, I only think of each channel for a second shortly before it becomes active (before the relay to the measuring point closes),
staggered e.g. 1V for channel 1, 2V for channel 2 ... 5V for channel 5.
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Marking assignments for the log data would certainly be much more elegant with software,
especially if the relays were also switched with it.
Can you think of something good ?
Did I forget something important ?