Hi Guys,
I thought I would share some of the things happening "behind the scenes" as such relating to the PALADIN brand:
My idea with the PALADIN brand is a foundation built around quality and simplicity of use. In other words, provide quality products with great features (and / or specifications), but are easy to use and understand.
Having worked with low quality equipment, medium quality equipment, and high quality equipment I can say this for sure: Great equipment doesn't guarantee success, but it makes it far more achievable. You can only fix problems if you can find / measure them, and you can only optimize to the limits of your equipment. Therefore in my view, quality equipment is a must for producing quality products.
So to start this conversation off, I thought I would share the equipment I already have and what's in the pipe (on order):
Soldering is done using a Magnum 2004 soldering iron, and a Magnum 3004 hot air station:
I have ordered a pair of Elektro-Automatik PSI-5200-10 power supplies. These are laboratory grade 640W single output units capable of up to 200V DC, and up to 10 Amps supply. Being 640W it cannot provide 10A at 200V, so it does auto-ranging by adjusting the output current depending on the voltage such that the 640W is maintained.
More info here: http://shop.elektroautomatik.de/shop/shop__Labornetzger%C3%A4t%200..200V0..10A640W__1::4::14::58::a05100408__en_GB;JSESSIONID=00647FB070857B1C8EB461D54D032DFA
My oscilloscope has a signal generator built in but it is rather limited in its range, output capability, and noise. I have therefore ordered an ISO-Tech AFG 21225 dual channel arbitrary function generator. What's great about this machine is that it can be used for normal signal generation (including balanced signals), but also power supply/transformer simulations. That means I can set-up various power supply simulations (including noise, hum, ripple, etc) and then check how well a filtering and rectifying scheme is able to deal with it, etc.
Measurements are made using a Keysight (Agilent) 34461A Truevolt bench meter. It is a 6.5 digit multimeter with amazing accuracy and resolution:
Secondary measurement device is a Fluke 289 DMM - the most accurate hand-held meter Fluke makes:
And finally we get to the Oscilloscope. It is a Keysight (Agilent) InfiniiVision DSOX2012A with software upgrade to 200Mhz:
The next item I will order is an electronic DC load. I am still deciding on which one to get, so not yet final.
There are a number of additional bits I would like on the bench when I have some funds available, but for now I think this is a good start.
What do you guys think? Anything serious missing from this picture other than me sitting behind a bench using these machines to develop products :2thumbs:
Kind Regards,
Ian.
I thought I would share some of the things happening "behind the scenes" as such relating to the PALADIN brand:
My idea with the PALADIN brand is a foundation built around quality and simplicity of use. In other words, provide quality products with great features (and / or specifications), but are easy to use and understand.
Having worked with low quality equipment, medium quality equipment, and high quality equipment I can say this for sure: Great equipment doesn't guarantee success, but it makes it far more achievable. You can only fix problems if you can find / measure them, and you can only optimize to the limits of your equipment. Therefore in my view, quality equipment is a must for producing quality products.
So to start this conversation off, I thought I would share the equipment I already have and what's in the pipe (on order):
Soldering is done using a Magnum 2004 soldering iron, and a Magnum 3004 hot air station:
I have ordered a pair of Elektro-Automatik PSI-5200-10 power supplies. These are laboratory grade 640W single output units capable of up to 200V DC, and up to 10 Amps supply. Being 640W it cannot provide 10A at 200V, so it does auto-ranging by adjusting the output current depending on the voltage such that the 640W is maintained.
More info here: http://shop.elektroautomatik.de/shop/shop__Labornetzger%C3%A4t%200..200V0..10A640W__1::4::14::58::a05100408__en_GB;JSESSIONID=00647FB070857B1C8EB461D54D032DFA
My oscilloscope has a signal generator built in but it is rather limited in its range, output capability, and noise. I have therefore ordered an ISO-Tech AFG 21225 dual channel arbitrary function generator. What's great about this machine is that it can be used for normal signal generation (including balanced signals), but also power supply/transformer simulations. That means I can set-up various power supply simulations (including noise, hum, ripple, etc) and then check how well a filtering and rectifying scheme is able to deal with it, etc.
Measurements are made using a Keysight (Agilent) 34461A Truevolt bench meter. It is a 6.5 digit multimeter with amazing accuracy and resolution:
Secondary measurement device is a Fluke 289 DMM - the most accurate hand-held meter Fluke makes:
And finally we get to the Oscilloscope. It is a Keysight (Agilent) InfiniiVision DSOX2012A with software upgrade to 200Mhz:
The next item I will order is an electronic DC load. I am still deciding on which one to get, so not yet final.
There are a number of additional bits I would like on the bench when I have some funds available, but for now I think this is a good start.
What do you guys think? Anything serious missing from this picture other than me sitting behind a bench using these machines to develop products :2thumbs:
Kind Regards,
Ian.
