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| HKJ:
--- Quote from: uski on January 13, 2023, 07:59:55 pm ---It has a 300uA range. I would be curious to see what the burden voltage would be or what the value of the sensing resistor is? --- End quote --- If it is designed as most multimeters it would be 30mV and 300mV on the 3mA range. |
| TimFox:
--- Quote from: JohanH on January 13, 2023, 08:23:37 am --- --- Quote from: tooki on January 13, 2023, 07:38:01 am --- --- Quote from: BillyO on January 13, 2023, 12:00:18 am ---Asea Brown Boveri are a Swiss company. I had no idea they ever made DMMs. That thing probably cost something like $5000 in today's dollars and was probably for their own service staff. --- End quote --- Swiss-Swedish, actually. (Asea was Swedish; Brown Boveri was Swiss; they merged to form ABB.) --- End quote --- There's also a strong Finnish branch. The 1889 founded electrical company Strömberg in Finland was bought by Asea in 1986 and after the Asea - Brown Boveri merger in 1988, the company was named ABB Strömberg for a while. --- End quote --- Before the merger with Asea, Brown Boveri was known as BBA, for "Brown Boveri Aktiengesellschaft", aka "Brown, Boveri & Cie". |
| tooki:
--- Quote from: TimFox on January 14, 2023, 06:58:13 pm --- --- Quote from: JohanH on January 13, 2023, 08:23:37 am --- --- Quote from: tooki on January 13, 2023, 07:38:01 am --- --- Quote from: BillyO on January 13, 2023, 12:00:18 am ---Asea Brown Boveri are a Swiss company. I had no idea they ever made DMMs. That thing probably cost something like $5000 in today's dollars and was probably for their own service staff. --- End quote --- Swiss-Swedish, actually. (Asea was Swedish; Brown Boveri was Swiss; they merged to form ABB.) --- End quote --- There's also a strong Finnish branch. The 1889 founded electrical company Strömberg in Finland was bought by Asea in 1986 and after the Asea - Brown Boveri merger in 1988, the company was named ABB Strömberg for a while. --- End quote --- Before the merger with Asea, Brown Boveri was known as BBA, for "Brown Boveri Aktiengesellschaft", aka "Brown, Boveri & Cie". --- End quote --- No. It was never known as "BBA", always BBC. Initially it was a Kollektivgesellschaft, later an Aktiengesellschaft. The full legal company name was "Kollektivgesellschaft Brown, Boveri & Cie" and "Aktiengesellschaft Brown, Boveri & Cie", respectively. "& Cie" simply referred to a partnership with more participants than the ones named. So "Brown, Boveri & Cie" simply means "Brown, Boveri, and others". Until recently, it was a legal requirement in Switzerland for certain kinds of Kollektivgesellschaft to include "& Cie" in its name if there were any partners not enumerated in the name of the partnership. |
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