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News Release from: Tektronix | Subject: TPS2PBND Power Bundle
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 12 October 2004
Powerful addon for new scope family
The TPS2PBND Power Bundle is an industrial power option that complements the new TPS2000 Series of digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs).
The TPS2PBND Power Bundle is an industrial power option that complements the new TPS2000 Series of digital storage oscilloscopes (DSOs) The Power Bundle contains four of the new P5120 passive high-voltage probes and the new TPS2PWR1 power measurement and analysis software
The combination will improve the productivity of industrial power designers and technicians by providing more of the capabilities they need within a single instrument.
Industrial power users often work on devices that are floating or have different grounds and regularly measure high voltages and currents as well as validate advanced control logic designs.
They need measurement instruments that provide accurate performance on up to four channels simultaneously.
What's more, they need an instrument that can easily move between the benchtop, the power lab, and the field.
The TPS2000 models with the TPS2PBND option are the first instruments to address these needs.
They are the first oscilloscopes in the industry to enable high voltage, power-specific measurements with four isolated channels in a compact, battery-powered package.
"The TPS2PBND marks our re-entrance into the industrial power market", said Bob Bluhm, General Manager, Tektronix.
"The TPS2PBND adds industrial-power-specific capabilities to the TPS2000 Series DSOs".
"The combination of these features in a single instrument makes these the first oscilloscopes in the industry to enable high voltage, power-specific measurements on four isolated channels from bench to power lab to field".
The IsolatedChannel technology of the TPS2000 Family provides a perfect solution for both grounded and floating high-voltage measurements, such as three-phase power and circuits with different low levels or ground references, when used with appropriately rated probes.
When equipped with the P5120 passive high-voltage probe, the TPS2000 Series measures up to 1000V RMS Cat II from the probe tip to earth ground and floating voltages up to 600V RMS Cat II (300V RMS Cat III) on all channels simultaneously.
New TPS2PWR1 power measurement and analysis software improves productivity by reducing development and test time with the broadest range of power-specific measurements at its price point, such as switching loss (including turn-on, turn-off and conduction losses), harmonic measurements to the 50th harmonic, and dv/dt and di/dt cursor measurements.
TPS2PWR1 software eliminates the need for manual calculations with automated power analysis, waveform analysis and phase analysis with true power, reactive power, peak power, power factor, crest factor, and phase relationships.
"The new TPS2000 Series with the TPS2PBND Power Bundle provide the only four-isolated channel oscilloscopes I know of that facilitate measurements spanning digital circuitry to three-phase power in a single, isolated-input, battery-operated instrument", said Viren Javadekar, Engineering Manager, Power Quality Correction Group, Schneider Electric.
"This solution is suitable for the lab and field".
"It will enable us to accomplish more in less time and with less equipment".
"These are real differentiators and highly advantageous to us when designing, troubleshooting and testing power electronic systems and subsystems". Request a free brochure from Tektronix ...
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