To meet today’s demands for the most accurate and precise power measurements, the instruments need to be properly calibrated to national and international standards. This article in Measurement & Sensors Directory explains why.
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New measures for renewables
The increased emphasis on energy efficiency, coupled with the expansion of new technologies in both power generation (wind, solar etc.) and conversion (high-frequency inverters, switch-mode power supplies etc.) has created a demand for new measuring instruments combining high accuracy with the versatility to handle multiple and widely varying inputs.
This article in Electronics Magazine describes how the Yokogawa WT1800 digital power analysers incorporates a number of innovative functions for electrical power and efficiency measurements in a range of industries from inverter and drive design to alternative energy systems.
Test and measurement in the power sector
The need for accurate and reliable power measurement is greater than ever before. As the demands of society and its reliance on advanced technology continue to grow, so energy consumption is increasing at a rate that is unsustainable without a significant shift to alternative energy sources – which themselves require the use of new power electronic technology in the form of high-frequency inverters.
My article, published in Electronic Product News (EPN), which has just closed after 40 years and will be sadly missed, describes how the Yokogawa WT1800 power analyser addresses the measurement challenges of new energy efficient technologies where factors such as energy usage and the quality of power waveforms need to be evaluated.
Test instruments evolve to meet automotive challenges
The increased use of advanced electronic technologies in modern cars poses considerable challenges to the test and measurement engineer, both at the design debugging stage and for general-purpose performance and maintenance purposes. The modern motor vehicle may contain sophisticated embedded systems linked with the engine control unit as well as serial buses for communications information and control signals throughout the vehicle.
Read our article in automotive electronics on how instruments have evolved to meet the latest automotive challenges.
Extra Channels Expand the Scope of MSO Applications
More and more oscilloscope users are realising that four channels are no longer enough. In my article published in Electronics World you will find out how eight channels provide the answer.
8 channel Yokogawa DLM4000 meets measurement challenges
Read my article in Irish Manufacturing how the new Yokogawa 8-channel mixed-signal oscilloscopes enables engineers to address many measurement challenges presented by the complex electrical and electronics signals found in today’s industrial control and power systems.
Testing for energy efficiency
I describe in this article in Electronics Weekly how measuring technologies play their part in the drive to design more energy efficient systems and products, both from the point of view of ensuring optimum energy efficiency and meeting the compliance targets of international standards and the related legislation.