V&A VA18B

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Mastech VA18B

The Mastech VA18B a.k.a. V&A VA18B (V&A is a brand of Mastech) is a CAT II (1000V) handheld digital multimeter with USB connectivity.

See Mastech VA18B/Info for more details (such as lsusb -vvv output) about the device.

Model overview

It seems there have been at least two different revisions of the multimeter (or at least of the PC-Link cable). The older one used a Sunplus SPCP825 USB-to-serial chip (see [1], also the software from here), the newer revisions use a Prolific PL2303 chip. Both should work fine with sigrok, as long as the respective driver creates a "virtual COM port" / serial port device sigrok can connect to.

Models:

Rebranding of Mastech multimeters in this series:

Hardware

Multimeter:

  • ...

USB cable:

  • Prolific PL2303HX YR0903A
  • 12MHz crystal

Photos

Protocol

14-byte LCD segments over USB-2-serial (Prolific PL2303 chip, 2400 baud, 8n1), see various links below.

To enable output to the PC on the multimeter you have to keep the "Hz/DUTY" key pressed while powering on the device.

Resources