June 5, 2002

 In This Issue

• Latest News: QuadTech Announces the New 1730 LCR Meter
• The Reference Desk: Application Notes
• Medical News:
  • IEC60601-1 6th article in a Series of 8
  • IEC 60601: Medical Device Safety Requirements Seminar
• Chroma Systems: A QuadTech Strategic Partner
• Integrator Partnership News: QuadTech Partners with ViewPoint Systems
• Fun Website: Icecreamsource.com
• Feedback and Unsubscribe Instructions

 Latest News:

QuadTech Announces the 1730 LCR Meter
Full Featured 100kHz LCR Meter

• 0.1% Basic Accuracy
• Test Frequencies: 100, 120, 1k, 10k, 20k, 50k & 100kHz
• Pass/Fail Comparison Display
• Monitoring of DUT Voltage & Current
• Selectable Source Impedance
• IEEE and Handler Interfaces Standard

For detailed product information and specifications and to see the QuadTech 1730 drop in on the Agilent 4263B, please visit the 1730 product page.

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 The Reference Desk:

Building the Perfect Component Test Fixture

Ever perplexed by the source of error in your measurements? You've got a highly accurate instrument yet you're still not attaining precise data. Take a look at your test cables and fixtures. You may be surprised at the potential sources of error that lurk there.
 

What is the Accuracy Anyway?

A very common question in deciphering the performance of an instrument. Your test results are only as precise as the test instrument, setup and program. Review the definitions of accuracy terms, explore factors that affect measurement accuracy and calculate three specific examples.

Resistive Load Boxes for Hipot Testers and Megohmmeters

Used daily in labs as a test load or annually in calibration, resistive load boxes are a great verification tool for a hipot tester. Learn which resistors are used in the manufacture of a load box and how that load box is applied to a test.
 

Guardian 6000 Series Scanner Connections

Scanners are a fantastic advantage to your test setup if you're in need of multi-point testing on a single device or multiple point testing of an array of devices. Scanners can increase production line throughput and fully characterize a device. Investigate some scanner applications of the Guardian 6000 Safety Analyzer product family.
 

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 Medical News:

Leakage Current - Part 1: 6th article in a Series of 8

Finally, the 6th installment of the IEC60601-1 Series is ready for press. This article lays down the basics of leakage current. What is it and how is it measured? What is a Class I or Class II product? Find out, then keep watch for the 7th article, "Leakage Current - Part 2" for the exciting conclusion to the LC mystery.
 

IEC 60601: Medical Device Safety Requirements Seminar - July 26 2002

Leo Eisner of Eisner Safety Consultants and Dan Modi of Alcon Research are teaching a seminar on IEC60601 the Medical Electronic Safety Standard. Learn about the regulatory environment of electro-medical devices and compliance issues to IEC60601. Seminar location: Disney Paradise Pier Hotel, Anaheim CA.

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 Chroma Systems Solutions

Softpanels for Chroma's AC Power Sources Are Now Available

Chroma Systems Solutions, a QuadTech Strategic Partner, is pleased to announce the availability of new software panels for Chroma's 6400, 6500, 61600 and 61500 AC Sources. These panels can run on any PC and allows users to easily control the sources via graphical panels either through RS232 or IEEE-488 (GPIB) interfaces. The softpanels provide users' with an easy means of controlling the sources, reading back operating parameters and also provides a convenient way to create complex power-line disturbance waveforms for those models with this capability.

For Chroma's advanced AC sources the softpanels even provide the means of graphically displaying data for IEC regulation and compliance testing providing the ability to display and create harmonics, inter-harmonics waveform synthesis, line variations and output impedance changes to IEC standards. For more information please visit http://www.ChromaATE.com.

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 Integrator Partnership News:

QuadTech Partners with ViewPoint Systems, Inc.

Viewpoint Systems is a nationally recognized provider of PC based data acquisition and analysis systems, products and training. Services include: Systems Integration for engineering/scientific applications; Product Development of add-on tool kits and customer defined applications; and Training in LabVIEW and other National Instruments' products. Viewpoint Systems is dedicated to delivering on-time and on-budget, high caliber custom test and measurement systems that really work.
Check us out on the Web: www.viewpointusa.com or email Info@viewpointusa.com

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 Fun Website:

The Ice Cream Source

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