New-Tech Europe Magazine | Feb 2017

interruptions can be triggered by mechanical vibrations and be so brief that they are not noticeable for normal electrical loads, but nonetheless interfere with the functioning of sensitive electronic equipment. The various trigger functions of the R&S Scope Rider allow it to specifically detect and analyze root causes. Short interruptions of the power supply, for example, can be detected easily and effectively with the pulse width trigger. Measurements on drives and power electronics A common application is monitoring and maintaining electrical drives and power electronics or electrical equipment in general. Thanks to the automatic measurement functions, power parameters such as apparent, active and reactive power and even the power factor can be directly and simply measured. The integrated data logger allows the user to automatically record the configured measurements for up to 23 days and analyze long term trends simply by switching to the logger mode. Analysis of serial protocols made easy The trigger and decode functions of the Rohde & Schwarz Scope Rider help users analyze serial protocols to check the communications between individual electronic modules. These functions can be used to analyze digital communications and to specifically trigger on specific data packets. Users can determine whether UART, CAN or LIN control commands sent are received and processed correctly by the tested module. The ability to load symbolic labels into the device and select the desired control commands via text labels makes it even easier to work with the instrument. The

Fig. 1: Suitable for all applications – as a two-channel instrument with integrated multimeter for field use or with four input channels for analyzing electronic circuits. Source: Rohde & Schwarz

Fig. 2: To ensure the user's safety, measuring instruments need to be certified for the respective measuring environment. The R&S Scope Rider offers maximum safety and flexibility during measurements, with a certification of up to 600 V in a CAT IV environment and up to 1000 V in a CAT III environment. Source: Rohde & Schwarz

Detect sporadic network interruptions A common problem in electrical

installations are loose contacts, which leads to sporadic interruptions in the power supplies. These

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