Electric Vehicle Electrathon Racing Season Update

The 2012-13 Electrathon Racing season was a strong one for our lab technician Jim Robinson, and his dad Jim Sr. Between the two sponsored electric vehicles, they competed in 12 events garnering one 5th place, five 3rd places, three 2nd places, and three wins; their best season yet!

The success of the TECC / Robinson & Son team’s Silver Bullet cars over the last year has brought some notoriety throughout the Electrathon community in Florida and Georgia. In June, Jim Sr. was invited to present a seminar to a group of high school teachers in Quitman, Georgia. The presentation, in turn, led to the sale of a few Silver Bullet cars, including Jim Sr’s # 94 car which was purchased in September by a high school in Augusta, Georgia. Suddenly finding himself without a car and the opening race scheduled for November 16th, it was “crunch time” for Jim Sr.

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Rohde & Schwarz SMJ100A Signal Generator Review

The Rohde & Schwarz SMJ100A is a multi-purpose signal generator that is designed for today’s laboratories, offering the flexibility and signal quality required in challenging research and design applications. Its low setting times and flexible baseband make this vector signal generator an ideal solution for use in production applications. The baseband provides operators with real time signals and replays of pre-calculated waveforms, and the model also features a high resolution display that enables users to read measurements clearly in different light settings.

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Spirent on Sale – Ex Rental and Demo Stock – Year End Savings

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Fluke 2640A and Fluke 2645A Data Acquisition Product Review

The Fluke 2640A and 2645A are versatile data acquisition units (NetDAQ) that are designed to operate as a system comprising of the unit and a computer. These twenty channel front ends are connected to the host computer via an Ethernet network to form a data acquisition system. A networked system utilizes the NetDAQ Logger (Windows based) as the operating environment to enable operators to test and calibrate a unit.

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The Agilent 8114A High Power Pulse Product Review

The Agilent 8114A is a powerful programmable pulse generator that is designed for quick and precise characterization and testing. It adeptly achieves this by offering clean, repeatable, and reliable pulse waveforms in a technician friendly interface. Engineered to offer full programmability and easy operation, it will productively maximize test efficiency by shortening test and characterization time.

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Agilent 83620B Synthesized Swept Signal Generator Product Review

The Agilent 83620B is a synthesized swept-signal generator that is optimized for applications in the 0.01 – 20 GHz range. The popular 83620B model is ideal for a wide range of applications that require the accuracy and performance delivered by a synthesized source, and is also engineered to offer excellent phase noise and harmonic performance.

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Agilent E4440A PSA Spectrum Analyzer Review

Known industry wide as for its superb accuracy and speed, the Agilent E4440A is a powerful spectrum analyzer that is optimized for carrying out measurements in the 3 Hz to 26.5 GHz range. This truly powerful test solution is designed to offer an absolute amplitude accuracy of +/-0.19 dB and also an excellent average noise level of -155 dBm.

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Voltech PM6000 Advanced Digital Power Analyzer Product Review

The Voltech PM6000 is a versatile sampling power analyzer that is designed to offer high-standard power analysis. Engineered to offer up to 6 measurement channels, the PM6000 delivers a basic accuracy of 0.02% and a 10MHz bandwidth, and is intuitively engineered to allow technicians to easily employ it in a variety of test settings.

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Tektronix SCD5000 Waveform Recorder Product Review

The Tektronix SCD5000 is a powerful digitizer based waveform recorder that is optimized for capturing picoseconds and nanosecond single shot events. It is optimized for applications involving ESD, EMP, LASER, particle accelerometers, and a wide range of other high-speed single-shot phenomena uses. The SCD5000 is designed to capture events with excellent resolution and fidelity, and is also designed to deliver acquisition rates as high as 200 giga samples-per-second.

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