Let’s face it: Diagnosing electric problems is a pain, to say the least. You can get far with a test light and your trusty digital multimeter, but you still might end up just throwing parts at the ...

Today’s electronic circuit-board technology is posing a big challenge to in-circuit test techniques because of the disappearance of access. As a result, a shift from bed-of-nail to flying-probe ...

The Vibrating Probe is a device which detects current densities by vibrating a probe about a micron in amplitude, using a piezo-electric bender/oscillator. The probe output is fed into a lock-in ...

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