Product category:
Stand-Alone Instruments
News Release from: Aspen Electronics
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 07 April 2006
Scopes and supplies make first showing
at Nepcon
Aspen Electronics will make its Nepcon UK debut this year with a range of instruments ideally suited to electronics production and test applications.
Aspen Electronics, the Ruislip-based distributor of test equipment, power supplies and specialist RF and Microwave devices, is exhibiting for the first time at Nepcon Electronics this year The company is showing a range of instruments ideally suited to electronics production and test applications, including power supplies and oscilloscopes
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Exclusively available in the UK from Aspen, these instruments feature exceptional ease of use, rugged construction and a range of options, making them especially useful for troubleshooting in circuit design and debug, manufacturing test, installation and quality inspection tasks.
They are particularly relevant to the automotive, power systems, machinery, control, aerospace and industrial sectors.
With a bandwidth of 20, 40, 60 or 100MHz, the two-channel DOM delivers a maximum 200Msample/s sample rate, with an impressive 2.5Gsample/s repetitive sampling feature and a long 125Kbyte record length.
The scopes feature 8bit vertical resolution and offer various acquisition modes including: sample, average, peak detect and envelope.
Also included are: a built in high precision, 6000-count autoranging digital multimeter; a USB port for easy communication with a PC and a USB memory stick data storage facility.
For more general purpose test bench, troubleshooting and automatic test equipment applications, Aspen offers the GDS-2000 series of digital storage oscilloscopes from GW Instek.
Featuring a bandwidth of 60, 100 or 200MHz, these two- or four-channel instruments deliver a sample rate of 1Gsample/s and a maximum record length of 25Ksample.
The scopes can be programmed to take up to 24 different measurements automatically and results can be displayed on the large 5.6in colour TFT display.
A go/no-go mode is particularly useful in a production setup.
USB host and device interfaces are provided as standard, with GPIB as an option.
Aspen not only offers a wide range of programmable power supplies, but also the expertise to configure a system for customer-specific applications.
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