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  • GW60 Superrollo
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UT71B Interface

The digital multimeter series UT71 from Uni-Trend

provides a cheap measurement solution with reasonable accuracy. The set includes an USB Interface Cable and a Windows based software. Unfortunately the USB Interface doesn't work with Mac OSX. But the optical interface can be

Qty Part Cost
1 PL2303HX or similar 3.00 €
1 IR-Fototransistor 0.10 €
1 IR-LED 0.10 €
1 4k7 0.10 €
1 1K0 0.10 €
1 PCB 0.50 €
1 Housing (3D print or laser cut) 0.50 €

Schematic

The USB to Serial converter PL2303HX provides 4 wires for the signals GND, +5V, RxD and TxD as shown in the schematic The TxD diode is optional and not supported by the software.

Housing

I used a laser cut housing based on 2mm white acryl. The design was done with Inkscape.

SVG file

Laser Cut

Software

The S/W is written with XOJO to support all major OS (Windows, OS X, Linux). As I have just now only a license for OS X I can't provide binaries for Windows and Linux.

The S/W has mainly the same functionality as the original one.

tech/ut71.1420146454.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/01/01 21:07 by bullar