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Do We Need a Revolution in Electronic Test?

Posted December 20, 2007 8:12 AM

Features and functionality might be fine in a marketing brochure, but engineers today are more concerned with testing and verification that a component or product meets its specs. But as electronic components and devices become more complex, so does our challenge to test them fully. Much has been said about Design for Testability. But what are you doing in that area? Experts say that you must consider variables including internal and external connectivity, activation, stimulus and response, and error imposition. Share your ideas on how to best design products for test — or if that is even the best way to go.

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Re: Do We Need a Revolution in Electronic Test?

12/21/2007 5:54 AM

The trouble with anything electrical is that electrons are for the best part invisible to the human eye. The product I have developed turns electrons into photons using current alone and works over a huge range of current (3mA upwards) AC or DC.

Anything electric uses current and the current signal is a good measure of the health of a circuit. Current has magnitude and polarity and with this simple low cost self powered device, all becomes apparent to the eye.

I'm still looking for a company wishing to profit from its widspread comercialisation in just about anything electric.

As a measure of its sensitivity the same device will produce light from the corrossion process between a small piece of copper and a small piece of zinc connected to its terminals, and inserted into ordinay tap water as an electrolyte.

The photo describes the limited range of some prototypes, the actual current range of this product spans mA to kilo Amperes and the message is "SEE & SENSE CURRENT FLOW", the Test equipment you can afford to build in to any wiring regardless of its line voltage AC or DC from mA to kA.

Please Return if interest is stimulated.

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