Beamex BIC 10 Instrument Calibrator test teardown

Very sad condition, old and forgotten, but also very much defective, I was able to get a little bit life in it, but lets face it, nothing really ended working within the time frame i could invest in this one.
But it was still fun to look inside, i had a bit fun to see melting tantalium comming out of little red capacitor, that was cool..
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#calibrations
#teardown
#repair
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maybe one day they can do it better..
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[@jovan5988]

Hi Thomas, I would say logic thing is to feed the calibrator out to the measurement input, guess they split it to be more versatile.

[@SeanBZA]

Liquid is silver, which is used to contact the oxide film in the capacitor.

[@splitprissm9339]

The rechargeable batteries and charger are probably there to allow ground loop and mains capacitance free operation. Maybe the power supply is unhappy with nothing to charge and/or using the batteries as smoothing?

[@IMSAIGuy]

run away! that thing looks like a death trap

[@SeanBZA]

Date codes say 1980's, and I would say those Frako capacitors are all toast.

[@splitprissm9339]

Fragwürdige Kondensatoren :)

[@michaelturner4457]

ICs have 1977 date codes.