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You will already be familiar with the use of multimeters from your undergraduate laboratory experiences. These, along with oscilloscopes, are the most used instruments.
IMPORTANT NOTE: It is important that you know how to use the setting for measuring current. To measure a circuit's current flowing in some path, it is important that the circuit not be perturbed. For this reason, when set to measure current, the resistance between the input terminals is very low. You must BREAK THE CURRENT PATH AND CONNECT ONE END OF THE BREAK TO ONE MULTIMETER INPUT AND THE OTHER END OF THE BREAK TO THE OTHER MULTIMETER INPUT. If you simply connect the two multimeter leads across a component (e.g., resistor) in the current mode, you are basically creating a short circuit, the current flow can become very large, and fuses will blow in the multimeter.
The Laboratory has :
- Agilent 34410A: A conventional 6 1/2 digit multimeter
- HP 3403A RMS Voltmeter: a specialized multimeter for making RMS voltage readings. No manual available yet
Agilent 34410A Multimeter
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