Dear Reader, Recently Eric posted an educational entry on Power Factor. To demonstrate some of the AC measurement capabilities of the Mooshimeter, I set up a quick demo to measure power factor and harmonic distortion in a kitchen blender. Like many blenders of a certain era, it has two “Major” settings – Low and High […]
Bad power factors cost you money in the form of extra wire losses and increased strain on the power infrastructure. They reduce the amount of usable energy a circuit can provide but are often overlooked because they can be difficult to measure. This post talks about what power factor does to a system and how […]
The Mooshimeter crowdfunding campaign has hit its goal with more than a month remaining! It has been a real trip so far, and I’ve already blown through one keyboard’s F5 key tracking progress. Now we get to further refine the Mooshimeter to better suit your needs, based on your comments, suggestions, and stories. To that end, […]
Dear Reader, We’ve been talking to our friends at Technical Machine about the possibilities of integrating the Mooshimeter with their flagship product, the Tessel. The Tessel is “Hardware for the Web” – it’s an ARM Cortex M3 with a wifi connection (through a CC3000) and expansion slots for a wide variety of sensor modules. The […]
Dear Reader, Welcome to the blog! Here we’ll talk about whatever is new with Mooshim Engineering, electronics in general, technology, etc. Why reinvent the multimeter? In using our multimeters every day we realized many of the limitations we took for granted no longer made sense. Our multimeters have stayed the same while the world changed […]
