Tor on the ecs board, 16 operation of the latch circuit – Fluke Biomedical 875 Victoreen User Manual

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Victoreen 875 High Range Containment Monitor
Operator Manual

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that

manually during that time. The purpose of this pulse is to insure continued operation of

tor on the ECS Board

We have noted that U20

red by pressing the ECS button. Its main output is a power pulse

to the ramp generator. H

initiates a pulse from U203 (pin 10) to pin 5 of U207A, the muting

multivibrator. The muting

lso has two outputs:

ulse six seconds wide at terminal 9. This is

coupled to the power supply board on pin M. It also returns to the circuit so that jitters will be
eliminated on manual ECS.

2. An auxiliary pulse from pin 3 of U208 to the automatic pulse generating circuits resets them so

an automatically generated pulse will be present 17.1 minutes later if the ECS Test is not
conducted
automatic testing.

5.15 Outputs of U206 Pulse Genera

6 can be trigge

owever, it also

multivibrator a

1. One output to U203 that ultimately causes a muting p

2. A second output to U207 is a one-shot multivibrator that provides an enabling pulse to the latch

circuit (which also contains a flip-flop). The latch circuit consists of four NOR gate sections of U202
(pins 1 through 6 and 8 through 13), and also inverter U208 (pins 9 and 10). The latch circuit output
is taken from terminal 8, and will be either 6.2 V or 14 V. The operation is explained below.

5.16 Operation of the Latch Circuit

The latch circuit has two inputs and one output:

Input 1 - Enters on pin 6 (U202) and pin 10 (U208), which are connected. This is the monitoring input.
Its value is the result of the ECS Test. It enables the circuit to change state only after the conditions
brought about by the ECS Test have stabilized.

Input 2 - Enters pin 1 (U202) and pin 5 of U202 which are connected. The output is taken from pin 10
and pin 2 of U202, which are connected.

Output - The output may be either 0 V, which is a pass indication, or +14 VDC, which is a fail indication.
The two NOR gates (pins 8, 9, 10, and pins 11, 12, 13) are effectively a flip-flop circuit which will
change its state only when a certain combination of the two inputs is present. The presence of CR201
and a pull-up circuit on the power supply printed circuit board permits pin 10 to be 0 while terminal 8 is
6.2 V.

Input 1 has a normal resting voltage of +15 V. However, during the ECS Test it takes on a voltage
determined by the steady detector current that exists during the ECS Test. This current generates a
voltage of about 2.57 V (0.33 scale) in the panel meter, at which time pin 6 of U202 is at approximately 0
V. If, at this instant, the enabling voltage (input 2) arrives, it will cause the flip-flop to switch states.

Input 2 is initiated by pressing the ECS button, but its actual occurrence in time is delayed so that it
occurs during the flat portion of the current cycle generated by the ECS ramp.

Assume that the green light is ON at the beginning of the ECS Test. Actually this is probable because:

If the green light were off, troubleshoot

he ECS Test. With this assumption we

can work backwards in the truth table (Table 5-1) from the output (which must be low) to the possible
inputs.

In Figure 5-2, the initial output is assumed low (circuit condition did not show fail prior to ECS Test).

ing would not begin with t

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