Craig brought 15 years of automotive journalism experience to the Cars team. A lifelong resident of Michigan, he's as happy with a wrench or welding gun in hand as he is in front of the camera or ...

A multimeter and its test leads allow electrical workers to reach into an energized panel, touch live circuit components with the end of the test leads, and capture electrical readings like voltage, ...

One of the most basic tools for tinkering with electronics is a multimeter. Today, even a cheap meter has capabilities that would have been either very expensive or unobtainable back in the 1970s.

Let's start with DC voltage, one of the simplest and most-used multimeter measurements. The DC voltage measurement is used to determine the difference in electrical potential between two points in a ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—Maxim's MAXQ3180 analog-front-end IC, for polyphase electric meters, measures and calculates voltage, current, power, energy, and all major power-quality parameters. It touts more ...

Debuting as a team, the 3-phase energy-meter reference design and MCP3909 energy measurement IC forecast faster development times for power-meter applications. The chip (see figure) integrates 16-bit ...