Test & Measurement

December 2014

Kevin Parmenter, Excelsys

Kevin Parmenter, Contributing Editor

Once upon a time electronics went into neat precise product categories, making marketing people at electronics component companies happy. However the situation has become far more complex. Consumer electronics products are now finding their way into other applications, because frankly they are better, faster, an

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12/30/2014

Combating counterfeits

Tom Grace, Eaton

The counterfeiting of well-known brands and products is a growing problem, estimated to be five to seven percent of world trade. Among those well-known brands are consumer safety and critical electrical products, which can have threatening implications for workers and facilities. The cost of counterfeiting

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12/30/2014

Test instruments supplied by Yokogawa are playing a key role in the final testing of motors for electric bikes manufactured by Heinzmann

Yokogawa tests Heinzmann’s electric bikes

Test instruments supplied by Yokogawa are playing a key role in the final testing of motors for electric bikes manufactured by Heinzmann in the village of Schönau in Germany’s Black Forest region. Heinzmann has been developing and manufacturing electric drives for over 30 years. The company’s drives are us

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12/16/2014

Teledyne LeCroy announced the addition of unique measurement and graphing capabilities to their industry leading CAN Flexible Data-Rate (FD) serial trigger and decode solution.

Added measurement and graphing features extend capabilities of Teledyne LeCroy's advanced CAN FD solution

Teledyne LeCroy announced the addition of novel measurement and graphing capabilities to their industry leading CAN Flexible Data-Rate (FD) serial trigger and decode solution. Teledyne LeCroy is the only provider of CAN FD measurement and graphing capabilities, and was the first to provide a trigger and decode so

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12/04/2014

Rigol demonstrates their programmable power supply tech (PSDtv)

In this episode of PSDtv Rigol describes their DP832A Triple-Output 195W power supply for Power Systems Design at the recent electronica conference. The DP832A has two 30 V channels and one 5 V channel all capable of 3 Amps. With one channel isolated users can reconfigure instruments into any number of system

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12/02/2014

Rohde & Schwarz partners with Conrad Business Supplies

Conrad Business Supplies has become a stockist of Rohde & Schwarz measurement instruments as a result of the decision by the leading manufacturer to market products from its subsidiary HAMEG Instruments GmbH under the Rohde & Schwarz name. Munich-based Rohde & Schwarz acquired HAMEG in 2005 and

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Date:

12/01/2014