Here’s our next victim – a datalogging meter made by protek.
It seems fairly capable but the software could certainly use a little tweaking and a few more features would be nice.
Sounds like a fun little job for our resident hackers here at Openschemes!
Looking inside, we see that it uses an NEC uPD780058 micro with 60k internal flash – yum!
And Protek was kind enough to build us a nice serial interface – oh this is going to be too easy! Well keep your fingers crossed and stay tuned for the next installment of the Protek D620 hack!







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