Electronics talks to Doug Lovell, Sales and Marketing Director at Telonic Instruments about the demands of the test equipment industry and how the company is rising to the challenge with a line-card to suit all occasions
Electronics that drain power in standby mode are costing homeowners considerable sums of money and the collective amount of wasted energy and cash is staggering.
However there are ‘measures’ for combating unnecessary power drain especially when devices are in standby mode, which adds a major benefit to any device and this can be effectively handled right back at the design stage.
To tackle this, companies such as UK based test instrument provider: Telonic Instruments has introduced Power Meters such as the Kikusui KPM1000, designed primarily for measuring the standby power of consumer and commercial products it accurately measures low level single phase standby power and higher power levels.
Over the past few years, each region of the world has been putting their efforts into establishing regulations related to efficient design such as the ErP Directive in Europe, Energy Star in the US and the Top Runner Method in Japan. This instrument complies with standard IEC62301 (Household electrical appliances – Measurement of standby power) and it is capable of measuring the standby power consumption required by the ErP Directive Lot6.
To give the instrument a more ergonomic interface and to make it easier to use it is compact and light-weight and at a low price, creating an effective power meter. It is equipped with RS-232C as standard and both GPIB and USB are offered as options. The device is capable of measurements with Crest Factors up to six and it can also measure the precise RMS and PEAK values.
Doug Lovell, sales and marketing director commented, “In today’s market we need to address more specific customer requirements. We are well established in some niche areas, providing tailored systems, but our customers are increasingly asking for high performance compact lightweight test equipment at an economic price.
“We see growing requirements right across the industry, also in training, research and in education where easy-capture of data results and vibrant presentation is needed. UK Customers now demand complete reliability from a trusted supplier of multi-function, high quality, low cost products.”
New waveform generator
Products continue to emerge including the Rigol DG4000 series waveform generator, the latest in a family of fast, easy to use test instruments. They are designed to meet the needs of R&D, production test engineers, teaching labs and advanced research and education and industrial and consumer electronics to help build the next generation of effective electronic devices.
other ground-breaking products include the compact lightweight DSA815, which is making GHz measurement much more affordable, using digital IF technology to guarantee reliability and performance to meet the most demanding RF applications.
This unit is available in a 9kHz to 1.5GHz frequency range. It has a typical 135dBm displayed average noise level (DANL f/1MHz) for accurate measurements. Phase noise is -80dBc/Hz at 10kHz for frequency stability with a minimum resolution bandwidth (RBW) of 100Hz. A preamplifier and AM/FM demodulation function is a standard feature.
A variety of options cover extra features for specialised measurement needs, in the DSA815 a 1.5GHz tracking generator, EMI Filter and Quasi-Peak detector kit, VSWR measurement kit, 19inch rack mount and plenty of advanced measurements in the frequency domain.
Designed to target the requirements of production engineers, test engineers, teaching labs and SME’s / independent design houses, this innovative product is ideal for applications in the wireless system field test / maintenance, cable TV EMI pre-compliance test and research.
In the new and affordable DS4000 digital oscilloscopes, high-end requirements are well-covered, featuring a 4GSa/s maximum sample rate a standard very large 140Mpts memory, available with four channels. These are designed to reduce time in research, development and failure analysis applications making this a versatile unit for detecting signal and device characteristics with advanced hardware, real time waveform record, replay, search and analysis.
This device utilises innovative UltraVision technology (created for the R&D-100 DS6000 1GHz series) offering up to 500MHz bandwidth, up to 200,000 frames real time, wave form record and replay and up to 110,000 waveforms/second acquisition rate.
Many of the products also offer complete connectivity with standard interfaces such as LAN, USB host, USB device and GPIB (optional) makes it easy to integrate the instrument into complete production solutions.
Quality instruments are paramount to developing effective devices. Telonic is recognised for sustained ISO9001 standards and services which UK Customers find reassuring, especially in test and measurement where time means money. With the new Rigol instrument range, the company remains well-placed to serve R&D, production test engineers and advanced researchers across applications in communications, aerospace/defence, research, education, industrial and consumer electronics, computing and instrumentation industries.
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