What type of equipment is best to use for low-voltage test of battery cells? What is an electronic load, and how does it work? How to overcome a major limitation with the low-voltage-discharge test.

Suppose that you need to test a 1.5V, AA-size alkaline battery. You can apply a short circuit and measure current, or you can measure open-circuit voltage, but neither method properly tests the ...

Advantest launches the DC Scale XHC32 power supply for the V93000 EXA Scale SoC test platform. It offers 32 channels with an unprecedented single-instrument total current of up to 640A, enabling the ...

In today’s electronics applications, batteries power nearly all our portable electronic devices. Batteries also serve as emergency power backup systems on large premises. Plus, all-electric vehicles ...

Part 1 of this series discussed what characteristics make up a good load slammer. This article discusses how to use load slammers effectively to design, evaluate, debug, and validate your on-board ...