Fluke 189II/AN (289) Service Manual  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / testgear

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 03:25:43 am
content: Well, I was repairing a computer from a friend who works in a repair facility here in Shenzhen and come around to a folder with the name Fluke.Inside I found the 87V/AN service manual and...The 189II/AN, mostly known as 289 nowardays. I never saw this manual online in Google searches or any website. So for the good of the community here it is. And yes, it includes the block diagram, schematics plus calibration procedure.https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/fluke-189iian-(289)-service-manual/?action=dlattach;attach=1734632- part 1https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/fluke-189iian-(289)-service-manual/?action=dlattach;attach=1734635- part 2Instructions:Quote from: alm on March 09, 2023, 10:33:52 pm

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 04:03:34 am
content: Do note U9 has been rendered phantom in the maual lollThks a lot

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 04:16:42 am
content: Quote from: coromonadalix on March 09, 2023, 04:03:34 amIt is not U9, the measurement processor, which is a Fluke branded item, the reason why?

author: zrq
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 02:04:19 pm
content: Note that by hacking the PDF a bit you can see through the mist above the U9.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 02:41:33 pm
content: What, it means it is something added via the PDF password protection?I don't know because I done everything via mobile. Just copied the file to my phone via BT, upload it to the cloud and posted the link here. I still didn't got it in my Laptop to check it, been a busy day, less than a hour away from home now in transportation.

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 03:56:47 pm
content: Quote from: zrq on March 09, 2023, 02:04:19 pmin what way ?? would be nice to share in PM ?

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 05:13:19 pm
content: Quote from: coromonadalix on March 09, 2023, 03:56:47 pmWell now that I arrived and after the hint from ZRQ, there is definitely something under it...

author: zrq
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 05:35:14 pm
content: Just try any PDF editor, should be a simple white box placed above the text layer. I'm still on my work computer without one, so just spotted the dodgy redaction and posted.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 05:37:32 pm
content: Yes I realized that there is a lot of redactions, on the top centre white space of the circuit there is a ton more...Need to check later, too late here now.It doesn't surprise me to be sincere. Some years ago, way back in the old Flukecommunity.com, I found a unreleased update for the FVF software by playing with the link of the old one.Basically by changing the version number at the link.zip.html it started downloading a non yet released updated version of the FVF.It was at the time reported by me in the forum, with one of the Fluke Corporation employees (all of them were mods there) confirming that such link was real, updating the main website one week later with it.But before someone confirming it it was close to 4 weeks after my findings, with most users there using the latest version of the program while in the main Fluke website, the Support tab for the program, only had the update before it. So they took some time to confirm and update such link.Unfortunately the web.archive.org doesn't have any reference for it, or it has the post in question, but the snapshot available is years before such happened.So going by what I found just by playing with numbers in the name of a file, it doesn't surprise me that Fluke hidden part of the schematic in a way that someone was able to get that something was there.With means that there is 2 versions of this file. This one who is provided to the US Government as the 87V/AN one, and the official service centre one who probably doesn't have the redactions (just my hypothetical deduction).

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 07:34:21 pm
content: Can confirm; open it in LibreOffice Draw and you can remove the white tile redactions:

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 10:03:00 pm
content: thanks a lot, lots of troubles to hide a few things ... they where some hidings in other pages, not sure i saw all of themp45-46strange coverting the whole pdf document in libreoffice draw ODG is way smaller loll

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 10:05:11 pm
content: p47-48I dont know about pcb changes and FW for the old 189 II with the "now" 289 vesrionmaybe someday we will have some photos

author: alm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 10:33:52 pm
content: Nice discovery about the redactions! I opened it in a trial version of Acrobat Pro and removed the white rectangles on pages 35 and 37. Please let me know if I missed any. I had to split it in two posts to stay under the attachment limit. Download both, remove the .txt extension (so rename them so they end in .001 or .002) and extract with 7-zip.

author: alm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 10:34:46 pm
content: Part 2

author: mwb1100
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 10:52:38 pm
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on March 09, 2023, 03:25:43 amIs that available for download too?

author: alm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 09, 2023, 10:58:05 pm
content: Quote from: mwb1100 on March 09, 2023, 10:52:38 pmI imagine the 87V service manual is the same available here:https://xdevs.com/doc/Fluke/87V/

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2023, 01:05:19 am
content: Quote from: alm on March 09, 2023, 10:58:05 pmYup it is the same old one that's been around for some time. I checked it and that's why I didn't copy it.Quote from: AVGresponding on March 09, 2023, 07:34:21 pmQuote from: alm on March 09, 2023, 10:33:52 pmSo now what we need is to inject the pages without reactions back on the original PDF and we have a more complete version. Should I delete the original link I posted in the first post?Later I'm going to download the Lible Office and do the changes myself and put a new link on the top post. Thank you for all of you for finding something I didn't realized before.

author: alm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2023, 01:23:01 am
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on March 10, 2023, 01:05:19 amI posted the complete version.

author: Black Phoenix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2023, 01:38:45 am
content: Didn't saw, sorry. Being on mobile causes this kind of problems sometimes.Top post edit with your links and instructions. Now I just need to upload the new version to xdevs.com.Again thank you for everyone who found that and helped. Now waiting for C&D from the Fluke Corporation or the US Government...Also looks like I need to spend a little more time in that computer searching. Who knows what more can I find in terms of Service Manuals, right?They had some for most Apple Products, and some Huawei too, but the Fluke Folder was the one who caught my attention.

author: AVGresponding
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2023, 06:47:35 am
content: Quote from: Black Phoenix on March 10, 2023, 01:38:45 am

author: coromonadalix
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2023, 05:27:15 pm
content: @ALM@mwb1100The 87v are not the same models at allYou must talk about the 87IV / 89IV who is the same as the 187 and 189, BUT not the same as 187II and 189II who are the 287 and 289 predecessorsFluke just loved to F#$^ a few things loll

author: alm
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2023, 05:36:38 pm
content: Quote from: coromonadalix on March 10, 2023, 05:27:15 pmNo, no one here has been talking about the 87IV/89IV/187/189. Black Phoenix found two service manuals, one for the 189II/289, and one for the 87V. The 87V manual has been already available from xdevs.com for a while.A service manual with schematics for the 87IV/89IV/187/189 would also be great, but I'm not aware of this being available to the public (yet).

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: December 28, 2023, 04:53:01 am
content: Unzipped direct PDF for reference.