More about measurement (211)

1-09-2015 | The board described here measures the voltage and the current up to 170 A supplied by the battery in your scale model, then transmits these...

20-08-2015 | Recently, the Red Pitaya team started a series of videos with tips and tricks on how to get the most out of this powerful multi-instrument....

1-07-2015 | The starting point for this project was some newish resistive air humidity sensors, whose resistance varies in the range 1 kOhm to 10 MOhm....

1-05-2015 | There are countless descriptions on the Internet about the operation and usage of a ‘scope. But really, it should be the large oscilloscope...

1-09-2014 | With its VirtualBench, National Instruments introduces a completely new type of measurement instrument, which combines five instruments in a...

1-09-2014 | Many pressure and force sensors rely on resistive sensing elements connected in some variant of the so-called bridge configuration. In the e...

1-07-2014 | Don’t throw out your old PCs and notebooks or leave them gathering dust in the basement! They can be a useful resource: by adding this unive...

1-05-2014 | This article describes how easy it can be to use a current transformer to make precise measurements of alternating currents. We use a wide v...

1-04-2014 | To calculate current we normally use a shunt to turn it into a voltage and measure the latter instead. But if we wish to measure the current...

1-01-2014 | Time-dependent voltage measurements are easy to take, with just a test probe and an oscilloscope. These days signals from DC up to a few ten...