How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it >even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special >costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop >over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another >challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what >IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision >inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight >3458A).
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Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special construction and cost arm and leg.
If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight 3458A).
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, >>> and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it >>even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special >>costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop >>over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another >>challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what >>IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and >>so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip, >>long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision >>inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an >>AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight >>3458A).
---
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* Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * >>******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, >>>> and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it >>> even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop >>> over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another >>> challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what >>> IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and >>> so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip, >>> long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision >>> inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an >>> AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
******************************************************************
* KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. *
* Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. *
******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see ><https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current
flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter"
the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a >frequency meter?
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, >>> and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it >> even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what >> IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and >> so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision >> inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an >> AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight >> 3458A).
---
******************************************************************
* KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. *
* Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. *
******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, >>> and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it >> even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what >> IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and >> so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision >> inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an >> AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight >> 3458A).
---
******************************************************************
* KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. *
* Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. *
******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, >>>>> and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it >>>> even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special >>>> costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop >>>> over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another >>>> challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and >>>> so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip, >>>> long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision >>>> inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an >>>> AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
******************************************************************
* KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. *
* Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. *
******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see >><https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current
flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter"
the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a >>frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current
probe.
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:06:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, >>>>>> and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special >>>>> costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop >>>>> over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another >>>>> challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip, >>>>> long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
******************************************************************
* KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. *
* Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. *
******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see
<https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current
flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter"
the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a
frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current
probe.
Most such probes are AC-only, and none can clamp onto a PCB trace.
My current (in both senses) issue is to measure true RMS currents in a high-frequency isolated power supply. The idea is to have one
STSPIN958 full-bridge make anti-phase 48-volt 500 KHz square waves
that drive some number N of DRQ127 isolation transformers and then
schottky bridge rectifiers, for some unknown N. Four would be nice.
I have an engineer, a kid right out of school, working on this. It's a
great educational project. He'd never heard of core satutation,
shoot-through current, diode reverse recovery, skin effect, The
Devil's Staircase, the quirks of STspice, any of that practical stuff.
And I'm teaching him how to Dremel and solder and shear and drill
holes. This ain't bad for a first try:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bje0zqt3okjbsaycp16of/STSPIN_Proto.jpg?rlkey=yzyi1hf0r05hbex8zhppxdln4&raw=1
No, a surface-mount bridge rectifier isn't supposed to smoke.
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:06:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special >>>>>> costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip, >>>>>> long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
****************************************************************** >>>>>> * KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * >>>>>> * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * >>>>>> ******************************************************************
Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see
<https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current
flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter"
the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a
frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current
probe.
Most such probes are AC-only, and none can clamp onto a PCB trace.
My current (in both senses) issue is to measure true RMS currents in a
high-frequency isolated power supply. The idea is to have one
STSPIN958 full-bridge make anti-phase 48-volt 500 KHz square waves
that drive some number N of DRQ127 isolation transformers and then
schottky bridge rectifiers, for some unknown N. Four would be nice.
I have an engineer, a kid right out of school, working on this. It's a
great educational project. He'd never heard of core satutation,
shoot-through current, diode reverse recovery, skin effect, The
Devil's Staircase, the quirks of STspice, any of that practical stuff.
And I'm teaching him how to Dremel and solder and shear and drill
holes. This ain't bad for a first try:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bje0zqt3okjbsaycp16of/STSPIN_Proto.jpg?rlkey=yzyi1hf0r05hbex8zhppxdln4&raw=1
No, a surface-mount bridge rectifier isn't supposed to smoke.
My Tek one goes dc-20 MHz. It uses a Hall sensor and a regular current >transformer.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
(In Austin visiting #1 daughter)
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:08:21 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:06:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> >>>> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special >>>>>>> costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
****************************************************************** >>>>>>> * KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * >>>>>>> * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * >>>>>>> ****************************************************************** >>>>>>
handle the audio range.
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see
<https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current
flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter" >>>>> the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a >>>>> frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current
probe.
Most such probes are AC-only, and none can clamp onto a PCB trace.
My current (in both senses) issue is to measure true RMS currents in a
high-frequency isolated power supply. The idea is to have one
STSPIN958 full-bridge make anti-phase 48-volt 500 KHz square waves
that drive some number N of DRQ127 isolation transformers and then
schottky bridge rectifiers, for some unknown N. Four would be nice.
I have an engineer, a kid right out of school, working on this. It's a
great educational project. He'd never heard of core satutation,
shoot-through current, diode reverse recovery, skin effect, The
Devil's Staircase, the quirks of STspice, any of that practical stuff.
And I'm teaching him how to Dremel and solder and shear and drill
holes. This ain't bad for a first try:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bje0zqt3okjbsaycp16of/STSPIN_Proto.jpg?rlkey=yzyi1hf0r05hbex8zhppxdln4&raw=1
No, a surface-mount bridge rectifier isn't supposed to smoke.
My Tek one goes dc-20 MHz. It uses a Hall sensor and a regular current
transformer.
What model is that? Maybe we could put a little loop thingie on a
board and clip onto that.
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:08:21 -0000 (UTC), Phil HobbsI lied—it’s 50 MHz.
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:06:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com>
wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> >>>>> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even >>>>>>> handle the audio range.
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
****************************************************************** >>>>>>>> * KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * >>>>>>>> * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * >>>>>>>> ****************************************************************** >>>>>>>
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see
<https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current >>>>>> flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter" >>>>>> the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a >>>>>> frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current
probe.
Most such probes are AC-only, and none can clamp onto a PCB trace.
My current (in both senses) issue is to measure true RMS currents in a >>>> high-frequency isolated power supply. The idea is to have one
STSPIN958 full-bridge make anti-phase 48-volt 500 KHz square waves
that drive some number N of DRQ127 isolation transformers and then
schottky bridge rectifiers, for some unknown N. Four would be nice.
I have an engineer, a kid right out of school, working on this. It's a >>>> great educational project. He'd never heard of core satutation,
shoot-through current, diode reverse recovery, skin effect, The
Devil's Staircase, the quirks of STspice, any of that practical stuff. >>>> And I'm teaching him how to Dremel and solder and shear and drill
holes. This ain't bad for a first try:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bje0zqt3okjbsaycp16of/STSPIN_Proto.jpg?rlkey=yzyi1hf0r05hbex8zhppxdln4&raw=1
No, a surface-mount bridge rectifier isn't supposed to smoke.
My Tek one goes dc-20 MHz. It uses a Hall sensor and a regular current
transformer.
What model is that? Maybe we could put a little loop thingie on a
board and clip onto that.
Tektronix P6042 50MHz Current Probe
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 03:09:38 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs <pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:08:21 -0000 (UTC), Phil HobbsI lied—it’s 50 MHz.
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:06:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> >>>>> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> >>>>>> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even >>>>>>>> handle the audio range.
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
---
****************************************************************** >>>>>>>>> * KSI@home KOI8 Net < > The impossible we do immediately. * >>>>>>>>> * Las Vegas NV, USA < > Miracles require 24-hour notice. * >>>>>>>>> ****************************************************************** >>>>>>>>
The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see
<https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current >>>>>>> flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter" >>>>>>> the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a >>>>>>> frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current
probe.
Most such probes are AC-only, and none can clamp onto a PCB trace.
My current (in both senses) issue is to measure true RMS currents in a >>>>> high-frequency isolated power supply. The idea is to have one
STSPIN958 full-bridge make anti-phase 48-volt 500 KHz square waves
that drive some number N of DRQ127 isolation transformers and then
schottky bridge rectifiers, for some unknown N. Four would be nice.
I have an engineer, a kid right out of school, working on this. It's a >>>>> great educational project. He'd never heard of core satutation,
shoot-through current, diode reverse recovery, skin effect, The
Devil's Staircase, the quirks of STspice, any of that practical stuff. >>>>> And I'm teaching him how to Dremel and solder and shear and drill
holes. This ain't bad for a first try:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bje0zqt3okjbsaycp16of/STSPIN_Proto.jpg?rlkey=yzyi1hf0r05hbex8zhppxdln4&raw=1
No, a surface-mount bridge rectifier isn't supposed to smoke.
My Tek one goes dc-20 MHz. It uses a Hall sensor and a regular current >>>> transformer.
What model is that? Maybe we could put a little loop thingie on a
board and clip onto that.
Tektronix P6042 50MHz Current Probe
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Rats, Phil. You have a better one than my P6016! It only goes to 17Mhz
(at the 3db down point) and also requires the Type 131 current
amplifier which I do have (although it seems quite happy to work
without it for higher currents (will take up to 15A). I very rarely
use it but it's really handy for those odd times when it is needed.
Does the 6042 need a separate current amp?
Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 03:09:38 -0000 (UTC), Phil Hobbs
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:08:21 -0000 (UTC), Phil HobbsI lied?it?s 50 MHz.
<pcdhSpamMeSenseless@electrooptical.net> wrote:
john larkin <jlArbor.com> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 09:06:08 +0000, Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> >>>>>> wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:31:19 +0000, Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> >>>>>>> wrote:
On 23/03/2025 05:47, john larkin wrote:
On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC), Sergey Kubushyn
<ksi@koi8.net> wrote:
Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:Many otherwise great DVMs have an AC bandwidth that doesn't even >>>>>>>>> handle the audio range.
On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier,
and just as fast, if not faster.
That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.
Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.
Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).
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The resistor has great common-mode rejection too.
There is a skin effect in a surface-mount resistor (see
<https://www.vishay.com/docs/60107/freqresp.pdf>). If an AC current >>>>>>>> flows nearer the surface of the resistor, would that make it "hotter" >>>>>>>> the higher the frequency? In other words, would the ammeter also be a >>>>>>>> frequency meter?
What's the big deal here? Just use a oscilloscope with a current >>>>>>> probe.
Most such probes are AC-only, and none can clamp onto a PCB trace. >>>>>>
My current (in both senses) issue is to measure true RMS currents in a >>>>>> high-frequency isolated power supply. The idea is to have one
STSPIN958 full-bridge make anti-phase 48-volt 500 KHz square waves >>>>>> that drive some number N of DRQ127 isolation transformers and then >>>>>> schottky bridge rectifiers, for some unknown N. Four would be nice. >>>>>>
I have an engineer, a kid right out of school, working on this. It's a >>>>>> great educational project. He'd never heard of core satutation,
shoot-through current, diode reverse recovery, skin effect, The
Devil's Staircase, the quirks of STspice, any of that practical stuff. >>>>>> And I'm teaching him how to Dremel and solder and shear and drill
holes. This ain't bad for a first try:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bje0zqt3okjbsaycp16of/STSPIN_Proto.jpg?rlkey=yzyi1hf0r05hbex8zhppxdln4&raw=1
No, a surface-mount bridge rectifier isn't supposed to smoke.
My Tek one goes dc-20 MHz. It uses a Hall sensor and a regular current >>>>> transformer.
What model is that? Maybe we could put a little loop thingie on a
board and clip onto that.
Tektronix P6042 50MHz Current Probe
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
Rats, Phil. You have a better one than my P6016! It only goes to 17Mhz
(at the 3db down point) and also requires the Type 131 current
amplifier which I do have (although it seems quite happy to work
without it for higher currents (will take up to 15A). I very rarely
use it but it's really handy for those odd times when it is needed.
Does the 6042 need a separate current amp?
It has all the signal conditioning built in.
Cheers
Phil Hobbs
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