When EDN published its first issue in 1956, electrical measuring instruments looked a little different than they do today. Howard Skolnik, a former colleague and key analog mentor from my Burr-Brown ...

MR. ASPINALL PARR has aimed at giving a description of all the leading electrical measuring instruments on the market, and he has carried out this object with a painstaking thoroughness worthy of a ...

The demand to increase energy efficiency in electrical products is driving the development of more accurate measurement instruments. Modern instruments now can quantify incremental gains made as ...

A ‘meter is one of the most important tools on any electronics bench. After you’ve exhausted your five senses trying to figure out what’s happening in a circuit, firing up the old ‘meter is usually ...

MEASURING live voltages and current in today's high-energy environments can result in a severe hazard to equipment and users if proper precautions are not applied. Given the risk of transients, surges ...

IN the student days of their career the majority of electrical engineers are strongly attracted towards the design and manufacture of large machines. To design a 10,000-h.p. dynamo is found to be ...

Image Credit: Krytar, Inc. | E-Z-HOOK | Extech Instruments, A FLIR Company | Hoyt Electrical Instrument Works, Inc. Electrical test probes are used to establish a connection between a circuit under ...

Test and measurement instruments evolve over time. The banner improvements come in performance, things like measurement bandwidth and dynamic range. These always make the trade press headlines, but ...

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) are devices that record and transmit synchronized phasors, frequency, and rate of change of frequency (ROCOF) estimates. The observed phasors represent both the ...