Measurement Techniques and Terminology

Use these links to improve your measurement accuracy and to troubleshoot your test environment.
General Info and Techniques

• Avoiding Measurement Problems
• Calibration Tutorial - Calibration Definitions and Terminology
• Calibration Tutorial - Using Transfer Standards
• Glossary and Useful Definitions

Calculators and Resistance Tables

Our Decade Resistance product lines can help you simulate almost any type of sensor. Our ohmSOURCE is ideal for field use or where direct entry of the simulated value is desired.

• PRTCalc - Converts between Resistance & Temperature for PT100 and IEC-751 platinum resistance thermometers
• NIST - ITS-90 Thermocouple Database

Application Notes

Digibridge Application Notes

• Advantages of the Digibridge

• Operation and Measurement Techniques using the Digibridge

• Increasing the Test Voltage on a Digibridge

• High Voltage DC Bias

• Measuring Biased Inductors

• Characteristic Cable Impedance

• Constant Current with the 1693 Digibridge

• Charged Capacitor Protection

• Transformer Ratio Measured on the 1689 and 1693 Digibridge

• Voltage and Current Applied to the Unknown Using a Digibridge

• Digibridge and Battery Measurements

• Henry Hall, the Digibridge Inventor, and the Digibridge Patent

• The GenRad 1689 Used In Gas Sensor Material

• Open and Short Correction Using The Digibridge
  
  

Megohmmeter Application Notes

• Connection of the 1864 Megohmmeter to the 1864-11 Resistivity Test Set
  
  
• Connection of the 1863 Megohmmeter to the 1863-11 Resistivity Test Set
  
  
• Using the 1864 Megohmmeter in Aircraft Fuel Pump Inspection
  
  
• Using the 1864 Megohmmeter in the DC-10 Aircraft
  
  
• Insulation Resistance of Cables for the 1863/1864 Megohmmeter

Stroboscope Application Notes

• Control the Flash on a 1539 Stroboscope
  
  
• External DC Supply for the 1536