Holding down the 'SEL' button on power-up is the correct way to disable the auto power-off, you'll get 5 beeps to indicate this is the case. You just didn't hold it long enough the first time round, the second time you did. The meter will still beep at you after 15 mins, and again 1 min later but it will stay on. Alternatively, and If you feel daring enough, you could re-program the EEPROM to turn off after a longer period....and keep the backlight on longer while you're at it too.
Do you by any chance have any pointers for reprogramming EEPROM? I'd love to do that. This beeping business annoys the hell out of me. If I need my meter to stay on all night long, I don't need it reminding me it's on.
I do yes. Dave over at EEVBLOG just did a review of the latest 9999 count version of this meter. In it he mentions the chip on which it may be based, this led me to a Mr Kerry D Wong who has done a fantastic job of documenting how he changed the parameters of similar meters that use the same DTM0660 chip by accessing the EEPROM on the board. This link is to his site which shows his process, with images, Arduino code, memory locations the whole lot....its a different meter but the chips are the same: www.kerrywong.com/2016/03/19/hacking-dtm0660l-based-multimeters/ If you've ever used the DS3231 RTC module with onboard Atmel EEPROM and an Arduino then you are almost certainly able to hook up this EEPROM its exactly the same pin for pin....and I2C...easy. There is a link to an English PDF datasheet for the main chip, the DTM0660, at the end of his post. You can get the Microchip 24C02A EEPROM datasheet from here: www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/2/4/C/0/24C02A.shtml I've only glanced through it quickly but there could be an option to disable 'auto power-off' completely....no more beeps! (They annoy me too!) Hope that helps....and if you do venture into it, it would make excellent YT material. Good luck.
That's not a cordless soldering iron, as it has a cord. Its a battery powered iron.
Check out the TS100 soldering iron. It is an incredible soldering iron. It is DC powered so can be powered off a LIPO.
I power my iron from LiPo as well. But I do like smarts built into TS100. That's what I'm missing in mine.
Holding down the 'SEL' button on power-up is the correct way to disable the auto power-off, you'll get 5 beeps to indicate this is the case. You just didn't hold it long enough the first time round, the second time you did.
The meter will still beep at you after 15 mins, and again 1 min later but it will stay on.
Alternatively, and If you feel daring enough, you could re-program the EEPROM to turn off after a longer period....and keep the backlight on longer while you're at it too.
Do you by any chance have any pointers for reprogramming EEPROM? I'd love to do that. This beeping business annoys the hell out of me. If I need my meter to stay on all night long, I don't need it reminding me it's on.
I do yes. Dave over at EEVBLOG just did a review of the latest 9999 count version of this meter. In it he mentions the chip on which it may be based, this led me to a Mr Kerry D Wong who has done a fantastic job of documenting how he changed the parameters of similar meters that use the same DTM0660 chip by accessing the EEPROM on the board.
This link is to his site which shows his process, with images, Arduino code, memory locations the whole lot....its a different meter but the chips are the same:
www.kerrywong.com/2016/03/19/hacking-dtm0660l-based-multimeters/
If you've ever used the DS3231 RTC module with onboard Atmel EEPROM and an Arduino then you are almost certainly able to hook up this EEPROM its exactly the same pin for pin....and I2C...easy.
There is a link to an English PDF datasheet for the main chip, the DTM0660, at the end of his post.
You can get the Microchip 24C02A EEPROM datasheet from here:
www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/2/4/C/0/24C02A.shtml
I've only glanced through it quickly but there could be an option to disable 'auto power-off' completely....no more beeps! (They annoy me too!)
Hope that helps....and if you do venture into it, it would make excellent YT material.
Good luck.
Iron is pronounced with a silent R :)
Huh? Nothing is wrong with Artur's pronounciation, not sure what you're talking about.
He must be British :)
Yes indeed! 8-)