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Vibration testing - what is at stake for SA industry?
12 March 2003
South African industry in general lacks knowledge and awareness about the adverse health effects of vibration on its workers. So says Prof Wikus van Niekerk, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering ...

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Non-contact voltage detector for field service engineers
12 March 2003
The Toptronic type T475 voltage detector is a small pocket-size instrument which can provide an essential service for the engineer in the field. When presented to the outside of a cable, or even close ...

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High-accuracy DC mA current transducer
12 March 2003, Denver Technical Products
LEM has introduced the DF series of current transducers for accurate measurement of low DC currents for 10 to 50 mA, without breaking the primary cable. The new series provides a ±2% measurement accuracy ...

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Isolated voltage transducers for traction applications
12 March 2003, Denver Technical Products
For 30 years, LEM has used Hall effect technology for its voltage transducers supplied to the industrial and railway traction markets. Today, the trend is to save space while maintaining or improving ...

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Eyewear-mounted displays for test and measurement
26 February 2003, Surveillance
MicroOptical has developed its Instrument Viewer (models SV-3 and CV-1), eyeglass eyewear-mounted displays for test and measurement applications. The Instrument Viewer is a hands-free, portable and ...

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Fast two-way optical loss test set
26 February 2003, Asset Management
Fibre-optic test equipment provider, Kingfisher International, offers what it claims is the industry's fastest and easiest to use bi-directional loss test set. The KI 7300/KI 7700 series displays average ...

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Full function waveform generator supports USB, LAN and GPIB
26 February 2003, Concilium Technologies, Integrated Solutions
Agilent Technologies' 33220A Function/Arbitrary Waveform Generator uses direct digital synthesis (DDS) techniques that the company says creates a stable, accurate output signal for clean, low distortion ...

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Ethernet compliance test software for oscilloscopes
12 February 2003
Tektronix claims it is now able to offer the industry's most comprehensive Ethernet compliance test software for use with its high-performance digital oscilloscopes. With the emergence of Gigabit Ethernet ...

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Signal gen provides wideband vector modulation to 20 GHz
12 February 2003, Concilium Technologies
Agilent's PSG microwave signal generator, the Agilent E8267C vector signal generator (up to 20 GHz), with its arbitary way form generator and I/Q modulation capability, enables the creation of complex ...

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Intelligent PC system monitoring card helps prevent failures
12 February 2003, ProMicro
The PCL-752 from ProMicro is an intelligent PC system monitoring card which is able to detect abnormal system operations and generate alarm outputs, allowing the user to take action before system failure. ...

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New logic analysis modules for the complex digital world
29 January 2003, Concilium Technologies
The digital designer of today is facing new challenges. Changing bus architectures, changing clocking schemes, complex packet structures, higher speeds, shrinking timing margins, small amplitudes and ...

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Fastest 16-bit multifunction I/O device
29 January 2003
National Instruments has extended its simultaneous sampling multifunction I/O family with the introduction of its fastest 16-bit multifunction data acquisition (DAQ) devices for PXI and PCI. With ...

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An end-to-end WLAN performance and RF emulation test solution delivered
29 January 2003
Spirent Communications, represented in southern Africa by Spescom MeasureGraph's Communications Test Division, has announced that NEWS IQ, a leading provider of independent testing and evaluation laboratory ...

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Vector signal generator up to 20 GHZ
29 January 2003, Concilium Technologies
Agilent claims that its new E8267C PSG vector signal generator features the industry's first microwave signal generator to provide vector modulation up to 20 GHz (from 250 kHz) in a single, integrated ...

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LabVIEW in harsh industrial environments
29 January 2003
National Instruments' Compact FieldPoint product line delivers a small, rugged, intelligent platform that extends the reach of its LabVIEW software to harsh industrial environments such as embedded machine ...

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Boundary-scan QuadPOD system matches low-voltage IC technologies
29 January 2003
Spescom MeasureGraph has announced JTAG Technologies' newly developed JT 2147 QuadPOD System. The new interface consists of a modular four-channel transceiver and a set of up to four TAP PODs for use ...

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AC/DC micro-clamps
29 January 2003, Denver Technical Products
Universal Technik has introduced a new series of AC/DC micro-clamps, with a frequency response of DC to 1000 Hz. These clamps will accept circular conductors up to 15 mm in diameter and are powered from ...

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Early analysis: cutting time and cost
20 November 2002, ZETECH ONE
The test engineer increasingly plays the role of a consultant to designers, advising them on how to design testable boards. As board densities increase and lead times shrink, manufacturing engineers ...

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Changing options in test and measurement platforms
6 November 2002
The convergence of new technologies and measurement needs has triggered an evolution in the design of test and measurement (T&M) platforms. For many years, commercial development of T&M systems was driven ...

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Automated power measurement package for digital phosphor scope range
6 November 2002
Two trends, the use of fast, low-voltage devices in digital systems and the rapidly expanding array of portable electronic devices, are driving the demand for compact, low-cost switchmode power supplies. ...

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