April 12, 2020, 3:22 pm
A fuse is a sacrificial device for the protection the rest of the circuit in an over-current situation. There are situations we need to know with some reasonable confidence what the actual maximum current is for a given fuse without destroying it. This is beneficial when the specifications for the fuse at hand is unknown (e.g. with cheap no-name brand fuse), or the circuitry to be protected is so critical that the interrupt current level must be specified precisely.
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Array 3711A,
BK Precision 2709B,
Constant Current,
Electronic Load,
Experiment,
Fuse,
HRC Fuse,
Melting Integral,
Non-destructive Testing,
Polymetric PTC,
PPTC,
PTC,
Resettable Fuse,
Temperature Coefficient Category:
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October 25, 2015, 7:43 pm
In this blog post, we are going to take a look at Electronic Development Corporation’s (EDC, acquired by Krohn-Hite in 1998) MV216A battery/external powered DC voltage standard and also measure its voltage reference’s temperature coefficient (tempco). A teardown video is also included towards the end. MV216A is a six decade precision DC voltage standard, it can output from 0.1µV in 100mV range all the way up to 11.1111V in 10V range. Voltage standards of this caliber are usually used as calibrators to calibrate multimeters and other test instruments. Continue reading ‘EDC/Krohn-Hite MV216A DC Voltage Standard Teardown and Tempco Measurement’ »
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Calibrator,
EDC,
Electronic Development Corporation,
Krohn-Hite,
MV 216A,
MV106,
MV116,
MV216A,
Teardown,
Temperature Coefficient,
Voltage Standard Category:
Electronics,
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