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News Release from: Southern Scientific | Subject: PAM picoammeter
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 August 2007
Picoammeter has roots in NPL research
Compact electrometer module board measures very small currents with extremely high precision and repeatability.
Novel technology developed jointly between Southern Scientific and the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), originally for use in the new secondary standard radionuclide calibrator, has been incorporated into a compact electrometer module board that measures very small currents with extremely high precision and repeatability The PAM picoammeter is an autoranging microprocessor-controlled single-board low-current measurement instrument suitable for research projects and industrial and laboratory applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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It measures currents from 10fA to 200nA with a typical accuracy of +/-1%, stability of better than 50fA and linearity of +/-1%.
Other ranges are available on request.
It can be supplied in Eurocard format for building into an OEM product or as a self contained, stand alone unit with its own power supply.
It can also be DIN-rail mounted if required.
In use, measurement data is transmitted via USB that is supplied as standard while RS232 is also available as an option.
The current reading is transmitted every second, along with relevant housekeeping information as a simple line of text, making it ideal for the rapid development of research projects.
Measuring just 160 x 100 x 30mm with an RF shielded measurement enclosure, the PAM is an extremely cost-effective solution for computer based low level current measurement and is a much lower cost alternative to more cumbersome bench top GPIB based instruments.
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