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Electrical Testing Instrument

The document lists various types of electrical and electronic measuring equipment, including their purposes. Some common meters are the ammeter, which measures current; the multimeter, which can measure voltage, current, and resistance; and the voltmeter, which measures potential difference. More specialized equipment includes the LCR meter, which measures the inductance, capacitance, and resistance of components, and the signal generator, which generates test signals. A variety of meters are used to test different electrical properties and components.

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Electrical Testing Instrument

The document lists various types of electrical and electronic measuring equipment, including their purposes. Some common meters are the ammeter, which measures current; the multimeter, which can measure voltage, current, and resistance; and the voltmeter, which measures potential difference. More specialized equipment includes the LCR meter, which measures the inductance, capacitance, and resistance of components, and the signal generator, which generates test signals. A variety of meters are used to test different electrical properties and components.

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List of electrical and electronic measuring equipment

Name Purpose

Ammeter (Ampermeter) Measures current

Capacitance meter Measures the capacitance of a component

Curve tracer Applies swept signals to a device and allows display of


the response

Cos Phi Meter Measures the power factor

Distortionmeter Measures the distortion added to a circuit

Electricity meter Measures the amount of energy dissipated

ESR meter Measures the equivalent series resistance of capacitors

Frequency counter Measures the frequency of the current

Leakage tester Measures leakage across the plates of a capacitor

LCR meter Measures the inductance, capacitance and resistance


of a component

Microwave power meter Measures power at microwave frequencies

Multimeter General purpose instrument measures voltage, current

and resistance (and sometimes other quantities as well)

Network analyzer Measures network parameters

Ohmmeter Measures the resistance of a component

Oscilloscope Measures the maximum voltage/ Displays waveform of

a signal, allows measurement of

frequency,timing, peak excursion, offset, ...

Psophometer Measures AF signal level and noise

Q meter Measures Q factor of the RF circuits

Tachometer Measures speed of motors


Signal analyzer Measures both the amplitude and the modulation of a
RF signal

Signal generator Generates signals for testing purposes

Spectrum analyser Displays frequency spectrum

Sweep generator Creates constant-amplitude variable frequency sine

waves to test frequency response

Transistor tester Tests transistors

Tube tester Tests vacuum tubes (triode, tetrode etc.)

Wattmeter Measures the power

Vectorscope Displays the phase of the colors in color TV

Video signal generator Generates video signal for testing purposes

Voltmeter Measures the potential difference between two

points in a circuit. (Includes: DVM and VTVM)

VU meter Measures the level of AF signals in Volume units

Voltmeter Ohmmeter
Multimeter

Ammeter

LCR meter
Advanced or Less Commonly used Testing Equipment

LCR Meter name itself indicates that it is used to measure the inductance, capacitance
and resistance of electronics components. The inductance, capacitance and resistance
are denoted by the letters L, C, and R so it is named as LCR Meter. A variety of meters
are made available in the market, but simple versions of LCR meters indicates
impedance only for converting the values to capacitance or inductance.

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