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From: Sergey Kubushyn <ksi@koi8.net>
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Subject: Re: Wideband ammeter
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:59:46 -0000 (UTC)
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Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
> On 23/03/2025 12:49 pm, john larkin wrote:
>> 
>> How about thermal imaging a surface-mount resistor?
> 
> Why bother? Measuring the voltage drop across the same device is easier, 
> and just as fast, if not faster.

That depends on what you actually want to measure. And "wideband" makes it
even more difficult.

Wideband current shunts made for AC-DC transfer are all of very special
costruction and cost arm and leg. If you want to measure the voltage drop
over those resistors, without making AC-DC transfer, you're up to another
challenge, measuring the AC voltage. Should start from the definition, what
IS the AC voltage? What the actual number your measurement shows means and
so on.

Look at e.g. not all that precise but much better than most LT1088 chip,
long obsolete. There is another one, proprietary and much better precision
inside e.g. Fluke 5790A Standard (which is a misnomer -- it is actually an
AC and DC voltmeter, 10x more precise that the venerable HP/Agilent/Keysight
3458A).

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