"I have always been able to count on Yokogawa to produce superior
products for engineering and laboratory use."
Technical Consumer Products, Inc. (TCP) manufactures a variety
of energy-efficient fluorescent lighting products for residential
applications, as well as commercial grade ballasts, customized light
fixtures, emergency lights, and light emitting diode (LED) lighting
products. TCP is an ENERGY STAR® partner offering ENERGY STAR®
approved compact fluorescent lamps and fixtures.
Mr. Mac McClellan, Technical
Manager (left) Aurora International Testing Laboratory Technical
consumer products, Inc.
Mr. Dan Smith, Sales Engineer (right) Measurement instrummt (Sales
representative) |
The Yokogawa WT1600 Digital Power Meter is used in our
engineering test lab for performance and efficiency testing of ballasts
and various lighting systems. We like the WT1600 because of its six
element input capability. For a typical fluorescent lamp and ballast
test we need five power measurement channels. We must measure the
single-phase input power to the ballast, and each of the four outputs
of the ballast. With the WT1600 we can take all the measurements simultaneously
with just one instrument. This simplifies our testing and software
development, and saves us money. The 1 MHz bandwidth of the WT1600
makes it very suitable for the testing of our electronic ballasts
and other high frequency lighting products.
We use the WT1600 in a test rack with other power sources and instruments
to control the test. The wide voltage and current ranges of the WT1600
make it perfect for direct connection to our lighting systems. With
input ranges of up to 1000 Volts and 50 Amps, we can make all of our
measurements without additional voltage or current transformers. |
In addition to the WT1600, we use several of the Yokogawa
WT210
Digital Power Meters for testing various lighting products
like our compact fluorescent lamps. We also have a DL1520L Digital
Oscilloscope. In my thirty plus years of using measurement instrumentation,
I have always been able to count on Yokogawa to produce superior
products for engineering and laboratory use.
The local Yokogawa sales representative, Mr. Dan Smith of Measurement
Instruments, has always been very helpful with pre and post sales
and product support questions.
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