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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com DLP PROJECTOR SERVICE MANUAL MODEL:PE8700 CAUTION BEFORE SERVICING THE PROJECTOR, READ THE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS IN THIS MANUAL.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Safety Precautions 1. Be sure to read this manual before servicing and save it for future reference. 2. The lamp becomes extremely hot during operation. Allow the projector to cool for approximately 45 minutes prior to removing the lamp assembly for replacement. Do not operate lamps beyond the rated lamp life.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3. Engineering Specification Superscripts indicate the method in Appendix B used for a given measurement, unless otherwise noted. 1.0 Image Quality All tests must adhere to the assumptions in Appendix A 1.1 Brightness (In ‘optical test’...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Keystone 1.0% 1.9 Descriptive Image Quality There should be no streaks or jitter, good saturated colors, and crisp resolution. Must adhere to Appendix E 1.10 Lateral Color 1 Pixel 1). 52” Diagonal for OPT test; 2).
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2.7.1 PC Mode 1280 x 720 pixels 1280 x 720 pixels 2.7.2 Video Mode 3.0 Mechanical & Cosmetic 3.1 Dimensions 400L x 347W x 116H 3.2 Weight 16.7 lbs (7581 g) 3.3 Security Slot Kensington compatible slot 150N break away force 3.4 Feet 4 adjustable feet...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 6.2 Control 6.2.1 IR Receivers 6.2.1.1 Location 2receiver, located on the front and rear of this projector 6.2.1.2 Range 8m ( front ) / 5m ( rear ) with 30 degree horizontal Angle and 15 degree vertical angle 7.0 Power Requirements 7.1 Power Supply...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 14.4.1 Straight Drop 50mm 14.4.2 Tilt Over Should be able to fall over from tilting without taking any damage. Must Adhere to Appendix B 14.5 Gas No corrosive, toxic, or combustible gas should be emitted 14.6 Electrostatic Discharge comply to the acceptance criteria as specified in 61000-4-2/1995...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Appendix A Optical Measurement This part of the Optical Test Instruction describes those measurements to be executed during the production of the optical engines. Content: A1 BRIGHTNESS A2 BRIGHTNESS UNIFORMITY A3 BRIGHTNESS DIFFERENCE A4 ANSI CONTRAST A5 PEAK CONTRAST A6 LIGHT LEAKAGE...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Practical consideration 1. When measuring contrast manually, operators should not wear white clothing since light reflected from white clothing can influence the measurement. 2. Unless otherwise specified the projection lens is set in the widest zoom position since zoom function can influence the measurement.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com A2. BRIGHTNESS UNIFORMITY Unit: Brightness: Default Contrast: Default Uniformity = 1/20w 1/20h A3. BRIGHTNESS DIFFERENCE Unit: Brightness: Default Contrast: Default Brightness Difference= − A4. ANSI CONTRAST Unit: Contrast : 1 Brightness: Default Contrast: Default Contrast Ratio shall be determined from illuminance values obtained from a black-and-white ”chessboard”...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com A5. PEAK CONTRAST Unit: Contrast : 1 Brightness: Default Contrast: Default Contrast Ratio = Lux value at the center of a solid white screen/the lux value of a solid black screen A6. LIGHT LEAKAGE Unit: Brightness: Default Contrast: Default...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com A9. ZOOM RATIO Unit: Ratio : 1 Brightness: Default Contrast: Default Zoom ratio = maximum / minimum image diagonal size at a fixed projection distance. A10. FOCUS RANGE Unit: m (Max~Min) Brightness: Default Contrast: Default The minimum/maximum focus distance is the minimum/maximum projection distance (front side projection lens and the image lane), expressed in meter,...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Appendix B Design Verification Test Procedure 1.Purpose This standard establishes the environmental specification for projector related products, which defines the level of product performance and reliability in the field. It is not necessary the intent of these specification to simulate a typical user environment, but rather to provide for a level of product robustness that when applied over a wide range of manufacturing variability and environmental usage conditions.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3.Definition 3.1 Failure Criteria: The product is expected to perform to its full potential without loss of function, performance, critical parametric changes, and other undesirable anomalies, over the applied boundaries of this specification. The following product failure are not allowed within the boundaries defined in this specification: 1.Failure including permanent damage, critical parametic changes (optical performance defined in Appendix A), and latent defects.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Appendix C Drawings and Attachments Drawing 1: Top view of BENQ PE8700 video projector...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Appendix D HD2 Front Projection Image Quality Specification 1. SCOPE This document specifies the image quality requirements applicable to the HD2 Component Set for Front Projection image display. The HD2 Component Set provides digital imaging functionality based on Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) technology.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2.8 Gray 6 test screen This screen is used to test light blemishes and bright pixels. All areas of the screen are colored at a specific gray level, based on MS Paint 0-255 RGB scale: Major Light Blemish Blue Value Red Value...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2.12 Red Ramp test screen This screen is used to test light border blemishes and bright pixels. All areas of the active area are colored at a specific gray level, based on MS Paint 0-255 RGB scale: Major Dark Blemish Blue Value Red Value...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Light Pixel Gray 6 No light pixels visible on Gray 6 Total of Dark and Light Blemishes ≦ Minor Blemishes White or Black (See Test 4 , 5) Unstable Pixel Red Ramp No unstable pixels Screen(or any other TABLE 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Appendix E Supporting Timings Table 1: Support Timings by DVI-I Input (Analog or Digital PC signals) Resolution Vert. Freq Hori. Freq Pixel freq Digital (D)/ Polarity (Hz) (kHz) (MHz) Analog (A) 640 x 400 70.089 31.470 25.167...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Table 3: EDTV and HDTV Timing supported by component (YPBPR) and RGBHV Input Index Format Line Pixel Frame Line Line Frame Frame H back H sync V back V sync name Rate Rate Rate active total...
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 5. Black Diagram Conntctor Board Main Board DMD Board RGB DVI Sil169 (U17) RGB PC (U2,U3,U4) RGB/YPbPr ADC AD9883 Color (U7) Scaler Cheel RM1-A (U5) YCbCr Reset IC De-interlace Blaster Lamp (U18) SII504 YPbPr Video Port (U5)
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 8. Alignment Procedure 1. DMD Bias Voltage Alignment Equipment: None Procedure: 1. Watch DMD chip Label 2. Switch the DIP switch on DMD board according to the character on the DMD chip 1 of SW H1 1 2 of SW H2 1 0: Left;...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Procedure: 1. Probe impedance matches 50 ohm 2. Change Timing and pattern of pattern generator : Timing : 800x600@60Hz (H:37.879Khz,V:60.317Hz) pattern : full white 3. Adjust user & factory OSD values to default. 4.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3. DVI-Analog Color Alignment Procedure Default valve(User menu) contrast color Sharpness Video S-Video Comp Comp-HD RGBHV DVI-I The Gamma(RED ,GREEN,BLUE) is for temperature 0,1,2,3,4. Equipment: Pattern generator (Chroma 2250) Lux meter ( CL-100) OSD Default value used for DVI-Analog color alignment Item Value...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Procedure: A. Black Level Adjustment: (DLP brightness) Change pattern of pattern generator : Pattern : Black (Gray 0) Adjust DLP Brightness to let the black picture to just distinguish. B. White Level Adjustment: (AD contrast---R,G,B gain) 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3 The variance of color coordinate via R,G,B gains: R ↓ X ↓ G ↓ y ↓ B ↓ X ↑ y ↑ 4. Adjust 6500K temperature color by changing Gamma-Rgain, Ggain, and Bgain. 5.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Filter Contrast Color Temp Saturation Pb offset Pr offset Procedure: (a). PBPR Offset adjustment: (AD PB, PR Offset) 1. The variance of color coordinate via Pb offset and Pr offset: Pb offset ↓ x ↓...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com (c). Saturation Level: (Scalar) 1. Change Timing and pattern of pattern generator : Timing : 480P(H:31.54 KHz,V:60.08 Hz) pattern : 100% blue 2. Adjust saturation and use lux meter to measure to let the light output just max. Select “Save Setting”...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Case x1>x0 & y1 > y0 : y =.331 dy=.01 1/2dy=0.005 x =.291 x =.281 y =.321 y =.316 dec. Pb dec. Pb dec. Pr x0 =.281 y0 =.311 x0 =.281 y0 =.311 x0 =.281 y0 =.311 x =.281...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 5. TV Color Alignment Procedure 5.1 TV Color Temp Alignment Equipment: Pattern generator (VG-828) Lux meter ( CL-100) OSD Default value used for YCBCR color temp alignment Item Value Item Value USER>Picture> Brightness Contrast Color Tint...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 6. User the lux meter and adjust Gamma-Rgain, Gamma-Ggain, & Gamma-Bgain to meet the spec. 7. Press “Save Color Temp. Videos > AS Color Temp 5400” to save into memory. 8. Repeat 6~7 to perform the 6500K and 7500K color temperature. 9.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 5.3 Gray Level for Composite Video & S-Video Equipment: Pattern generator (VG-828) Lux meter ( CL-100) OSD Default value: Item Value Item Value USER>Picture> Brightness Factory>SD Contrast Brightness Color Contrast Tint Saturation Sharpness Filter Color Temp Procedure:...
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 9. Trouble Shooting Guide 1. System trouble shooting : Is LED light when Check door luck 1.Check +3Vs, +5Vs Main Power Switch switch 2. Check power Is Orange LED Are fans spinning? Check fans, wire and active when remote Translation board power on?
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2. Main board trouble shooting: (1) Main: 1. See CPU trouble shooting REMOTE U18, reset successful? POWERON 2. U17, RP25, RP24 OK? CPU (U10) 56pin(IR) signal? OSD ok? 1. RP19,RP17,RP15,RP13 When no valid signal 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com (2) SIL504 trouble shooting: (U4, U2) X1, 20Mhz? 1. check X1, C41, C42 RESET check U17,RP25 successful? System IIC ok? 1.Q2,Q3 ok? (level shift ) (U4 pin 15,14) 2. RP7 ok? ( IIC Pull high) SIL504 IIC ok? 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com (3) CPU (U10) trouble shooting guide : Check +3Vs (pin92) Check X1 1. Check C75, C76 crystal 2. replace X1 check U18, make sure U18 RESET pin1 has delayed for certain Successful? period of time ,from L go H. 1.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 3. DMD board trouble shooting guide. RESETZ And 1. No RESETZ check main board and POWERGOO translation board. 2. No POWERGOOD check main board Color wheel 1. Check Color wheel and CW connector (J4) Spinning? 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 4. Connector board trouble shooting guide. S-video is OK? Check L14,L17 Check U5 Check U10 Composite is Check L13 Check U5 Check U10 Component is Check L15,L16,L18 Check U10 DVI- A is Check L28,,L29,L31,L32,L33 Check U17 DVI-D (HDCP)is Check U18 DDC...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Check R61,R62 RS232 is OK? Check U14 Check main board 5. Power board trouble shooting guide. P o w e r B D C h e c k . D is c o n n e c t th e w ir e F u s e B r o k e n ? f o r m b u tto m b d .
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com N o 1 2 V o u t p u t N o + 5 V - F i x o u t p u t C h e c k D 7 0 1 h a d b e e n S o l d e r i t a g a i n .
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com C h e c k p rim a r y c ir c u it. P ro c e e d to " C h e c k F u s e B r o k e n ? IC 6 0 1 "...
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 10. Factory OSD Operation There are 10 pages in this OSD, the ways to enter factory OSD are open user OSD, then press power on button. If you have to return user OSD, open factory OSD and press power on button again.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 2. HD Adj This page is the settings of A/D converter. There are 2 sections, one is for RGBHV format signal (DVI-A input and RGB-HD input), the other is for YPbPr format signal (Comp-HD input).
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Page Items Comment Range Brightness V/D brightness 0~255 Component Contrast V/D contrast -128~127 Saturation V/D saturation -128~127 4. Color Balance For color temperature settings, they are the combination of gamma gain and gamma offset.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Page Items Comment Save gamma gain and gamm offset For data input (Component >= 480p as color temp 9300K signal, DVI-A, and DVI-D) Save gamma gain and gamm offset For data input (Component >= 480p as color temp 6500K signal, DVI-A, and DVI-D) Save Data Temp.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 6. DLP This page allows user to change DLP settings. Page Items Comment Range Brightness DLP brightness -64~64 Contrast DLP contrast 0~100 CW delay DLP color wheel delay 0~1023 Degamma DLP degamma table Table 7.Pattern1 This page allows user to call up DLP present curtains and RM-1A patterns.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 8.Pattern2 This page allows user to call up DLP DDP1010 series present patterns. Page Items Comment Solid Field - Yellow DLP DDP1010 present pattern. For checking color. Solid Field - Cyan DLP DDP1010 present pattern. For checking color. Solid Field - Magenta DLP DDP1010 present pattern.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com DLP DDP1010 present pattern. For inspection of 'minor blemishes' on White Full DMD chip. DLP DDP1010 present pattern. For inspection of 'minor blemishes' on Black Full DMD chip. DLP DDP1010 present pattern. For inspection of 'unstable pixel' on DMD Red Ramp chip.
All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com 11. Firmware Upgrade Procedure Connect specific download cable to RS232 (RJ-11) connector. Remember to turn the AC switch off. Execute the ‘Flash Loader’ program. If the ‘COM Settings’ item is ready, you can see ‘Identifying target…’...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Turn the AC switch on. In 3 seconds, ‘flash loader’ will identify the flash ROM of this unit. Choose ‘Hex File Format’ as ‘Intel Extended’, ‘Operation’ as ‘Program’, and ‘Browse’ the ‘File Name’. After that, press the ‘Start’ button. ‘Flash Loader’ starts to load program to Flash ROM.
12. RS232 Codes 1. Set up peripherals BenQ PE8700 provides an RJ-11 connector for RS232 serial communication control. The user can use the ‘Hyper Terminal’ program of Microsoft Windows to control this unit. To set the settings of serial port first is necessary. Choose which COM port you want...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com After settling down, connect our specific RS232 cable and press the ‘call’ icon of ‘Hyper Terminal’ program. After this, press ‘Enter’ key, if an ‘>’ symbol come up, that means the unit is ready to accept commands for computer. 2.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Code Function Must be Reversed , no function Power On Power Off Message On Message Off Lamp hours reset Load all user OSD default value Save current active source settings Change active OSD Menu Enter Exit...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Aspect - Standard (4:3) Aspect - Letter box Aspect - Virtual wide Aspect - Through Load memory 1 settings Load memory 2 settings Load memory 3 settings Load 'optical test' mode settings Load 'middle' mode settings Load 'CW delay adjustment' mode settings Load default of current source Save memory 1 settings...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Image orientation - floor front Image orientation - ceiling front Image orientation - floor rear Image orientation - ceiling rear Back light board On Back light Board Off On line help When an user sends a command, he must follow the command format in the list. After he sends a command, program will acknowledge 2 pieces of information.
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Following is the list of Y-group: Code Function Save current factory settings Load saved factory settings Load factory default Load all user default Burn-In mode on Burn-In mode off Set RS232 baudrate as 9600 Set RS232 baudrate as 115200 Save as data color temperature 1 Save as data color temperature 2...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Red Curtain Green Curtain Blue Curtain Black Curtain Color Bar Chess Board Optical 13-point Reflective Edge Grid Blue 90 Curtain Gray 10 Curtain Gray 6 Curtain Full White Curtain Full Black Curtain Red Ramp Curtain Gray 20 Curtain Load 'optical test' mode settings Load 'middle value' mode settings...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Example: 1. Command = Y89893 (Enter) ACK = Y1Y (Illegal format, wrong length) 2. Command = Y98 (Enter) ACK = Y2Y (Illegal function) 3. Command = Y52 (Enter) ACK = Y0Y ACK = Y0_52Y For Z-group, this one is for ‘auto-alignment’...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Z030 Keystone adjustment Z034 RGBHV input -- Red offset Z035 RGBHV input -- Green offset Z036 RGBHV input -- Blue offset Z037 RGBHV input -- Red gain Z038 RGBHV input -- Green gain Z039 RGBHV input -- Blue gain Z042...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Z069 Gamma offset -- Blue Z070 DMD -- Brightness Z071 DMD -- Contrast Z072 DMD -- Color Wheel Delay Z073 DMD -- Degamma table Z080 Burn-in hours Z099 On line help The length of the command must be 11. The format, take an example, to read DMD color wheel delay: Z072RxxxxxZ, where Byte 1: must be 'Z' or 'z'...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com And the length of ACK must be 12, and format is Z0_072+0025Z Byte 1: Always ‘Z’ Byte 2: ACK Byte 3: Always ‘_’ Byte 4~6: function code Byte 7: sign byte, ‘+’ or ‘-‘ Byte 8~11: the current value after writing Byte 12: Always ‘Z’...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com TP42 DDP1010 VOUT_GY[7..0] VOUT_GY7 VOUT_GY6 DDAP15 DDAP15 VOUT_GY5 DDAP14 DDAP14 VOUT_GY4 DDAP13 DDAP13 VOUT_GY3 DDAP12 Video Inputs From Scalar DDAP12 VOUT_GY2 DDAP11 DDAP11 VOUT_GY1 DDAP10 RGB 888 Format (24bits) DDAP10 VOUT_GY0 DDAP9 DDAP9 DDAP8 DDAP8 DDAP7...
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VTERM (1.8V) Bulk Decoupling Caps All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com C207 C208 C209 C210 C211 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z DDP3P3V R109 3.4KF MIC39100-1.8BS C218 C219 C220 C221 C222 R110 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com Screw Holes Screw Holes HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 HOLE-V8 DDP3P3V U 2D DDP1 C119 0.1U Z AE20 VCC33 C120 0.1U Z AE19 VCC33 C121 0.1U Z AE18 VCC33 C122 0.1U Z AE12 VCC33 C123 0.1U Z...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com P12V SSI_VDD 120 OHM 1U Z 4.7U Z 1U Z 1U Z 4.7U Z P12V_P 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z 0.1U Z (0805) (1206) (0805) (0805) (1210) BAT54SW BAT54SW (1/8W) PUMPN2...
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All manuals and user guides at all-guides.com +5VA +3VA +3VA +5VA +V_DAC OP_A[0..23] OP_A16 IN_OP_A16 OP_A17 IN_OP_A17 OP_A18 IN_OP_A18 OP_A19 IN_OP_A19 OP_A20 IN_OP_A20 OP_A21 IN_OP_A21 OP_A22 IN_OP_A22 OP_A23 IN_OP_A23 RST_DAC R4 560 +V_DAC 0.1U Z VREF VREF COMP COMP 0.1U Z OP_A8 IN_OP_A8 OUT_R...
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