[Techtoolslist] Fluke 8088 pod and a moron...

[John Robertson]

Unlikely that reversing the cable would damage the pod. The inputs 
are ALL protected up to 15VDC as I recall. Rather it is far more 
likely that you simply have a bad cable. You can order one from 
Digi-Key - Single-Ended - Style 2 (or 4 depending on where you want 
pin 1) from CW Industries - the Canadian part number (hey I'm in 
Canada) is C2PXT-4018M-ND for an 18 inch one that you can then simply 
crimp on the 40 pin socket #CSR40T-ND (with strain relief).

At least that's what I would do (after rummaging through my pile of 
pod spare parts (extensive)).

John :-#)#

At 6:23 AM -0700 12/9/05, voyager at galaxian.com wrote:
>I received a Fluke 8088 pod yesterday and plugged it in to do a self 
>test to see if my 'untested' pod worked or not.  Well the test 
>failed, but if I wiggled the cable at the pod side it seemed to pass 
>- so I pulled the case apart to look for loose connections or wires. 
>I looked at the cable connection that was a little lose, 
>disconnected it, plugged it back in and ran the test again to 
>produce nothing at all.  Next, I realized the connector was on 
>backwards - nice.  Of course, reversing it producing nothing but a 
>failure worse than before and wiggling the cable does nothing. 
>Anyone done this yet that has some info on how much damage it did to 
>the pod?  I could troubleshoot it with another 8088 pod, but I do 
>not have another...
>
>Greg