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Test and Measurement is critical for finding those issues within an electronic system design that prevent it from being fully functional.
Electronic components are also subject to a variety of tests that involve anything from physical inspection to product-level functional testing to verifying functionality in a network environment. However unglamorous as it is, Test & Measurement is an essential asset to the electronics design process.
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Boss, how significant is this issue, and what are the effects?
I'm a novice in this area. I built an arduino setup to monitor 14 thermistors with 1m leads that have been fed into a hybrid... -
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From experience it can be tricky! Thermocouple produce such a small signal that any induced voltage can be an issue (even RF), RTD's are a coil in glass or a copper foil and are also susceptible to changing... -
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The coil is good for large current applications. However, in small current measurement I see there is some accuracy issues. Good article and would be better if there was some physics to help the reader... -
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You would not know if a load / strain gauge version of this is available?
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