Notes from the bench
Notes from the bench: buying and using lab instruments - power supplies, multimeters, electronic loads, oscilloscopes - connecting them over USB, serial and LAN, and getting more out of them with open software. RSS feed
· Marek Kaszewski · 8 min read
A Tenma 72-2540 shows volts and amps but no watts; BenchMesh adds the power readout. Computed readings, meter statistics, recording and sequences that the instruments never had - and what comes next: energy, limits and software protection.
Read the post →· Marek Kaszewski · 12 min read
Connect every power supply, multimeter, electronic load and oscilloscope in the lab to one mini PC running BenchMesh: LAN and browser access, one SCPI interface for MATLAB, LabVIEW and Python, logging and automation - features of top-end instruments, for free.
Read the post →· Marek Kaszewski · 11 min read
Why a bench power supply, multimeter or electronic load with USB, RS-232 or Ethernet is worth the small extra cost: poor vendor software, Linux and macOS, and a worn rotary encoder on a Tenma 72-2540 / Korad KA3005P that no longer matters.
Read the post →