Test & Measurement

Clare Instruments has upgraded its Elite electronic product safety testing system with the introduction of a number of additional technical features. The functional load test current of the new Elite has been raised to 16 amps making it suitable for the safety testing of the vast majority of domestic electrical and electronic products.

The Cropico Series 4000 digital ohmmeter range provides a highly practical solution for a wide range of low resistance measurement applications in the automotive manufacturing and engineering sector. The instrument includes a number of features to ensure measurement accuracy including forward and reverse current measurement with auto averaging, true current zero, long scale length and a selectable measurement range from 40mW to 4kW with respectiv...

Spectrum GmbH announces the availability of complete new designed LabVIEW drivers for the range of fast PCI/PCI-X card of the M2i series. This fourth generation of PC instruments contains digitizers starting with 16 channels, 16 bit resolution and 100 kS/s sampling rate up to versions with 12 bit resolution and 200 MS/s, arbitrary waveform generators (AWG) with up to 125 MS/s and digital I/O cards with up to 125 MS/s. The memory of these cards ca...

Spectrum GmbH has announced the availability of the new 64 bit Windows drivers (Windows Vista and XP) for its range of more than 70 PCI/PCI-X Digitizers, waveform generators and digital I/O cards. The state-of-the-art M2i card series can now be used under the 32 bit versions of Windows 2000, XP and Vista as well as Windows XP and Vista 64 bit. The M2i product range consists of digitizers starting with 16 channels, 16 bit resolution and 100 kS/s s...

The WENS 800 series of hand held digital oscilloscope meters is now available in the UK exclusively from Aspen Electronics. With a bandwidth of 20MHz, 40MHz or 60MHz, the 2-channel DOM delivers a maximum 200MSamples/s sample rate, with an impressive 2.5GSamples/s repetitive sampling feature and a long 125kbyte record length.

The new Dynaload RBL6000 Series, available exclusively in the UK from TTi (Thurlby Thandar Instruments), is an electronic load with a power level of 6 kW, making it ideal for use in the fuel-cell, power-supply and energy-storage markets that demand testing at higher power levels.

Engineers at the Allegro MicroSystems Europe Sensor Applications Centre in Annecy, France, have developed a software simulator for the company's automotive Hall-effect sensors that has dramatically reduced development times and eased interaction with customers.

Keithley Instruments, Inc., a leader in solutions for emerging measurement needs, has released the Simplified Test Toolkit, an interactive tutorial CD that helps test engineers overcome tough measurement challenges. The CD offers a collection of useful technical seminars to help engineers in creating more powerful and effective yet simple test and measurement applications.

Contrinex has introduced a new, highly innovative fibre optic sensor that can be used to detect liquid levels remotely and accurately.

Aeroflex has launched the W-CDMA ACE 3G protocol analysis test system, a powerful, yet affordably priced, network emulator designed specifically to meet the needs of design teams focusing on integration and regression testing of W-CDMA mobile devices.