The Tomco TE1000 RF Impedance analyzer is a powerful, easy to use test instrument providing outstanding performance at a very affordable price.
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The TE1000 RF impedance analyzer is capable of extremely accurate measurements of a wide range of impedances. However, as with any high frequency measurement, a certain amount of care must be taken to ensure that the results are not "contaminated" by stray impedances. Always observe the following precautions when using the TE1000 impedance meter (or any other impedance meter):
Connect the TE1000 impedance analyzer to the cable, and terminate the cable with a "perfect" reflector - an open circuit is usually the easiest. If the total electrical length of the cable is less than one half-wavelength then the angle of the reflection coefficient (in polar format) is twice the electrical length of the cable:
Electrical length in degrees = angle of reflection coefficient / 2
Furthermore, if the velocity factor, Fc, of the cable is known then the physical length of the cable can be calculated from:
Physical length = ( electrical length in degrees x Fc x 3 x 108 ) / (360 x frequency in Hz )
For example, if the reflection coefficient is 0.5<40° then the cable is electrically 20° long. If the velocity factor of the cable is 0.66 and the frequency is 10MHz, then the cable is physically 1.1 meters long.
Connect the TE1000 impedance analyzer to the cable, and terminate the cable with a "perfect" reflector - an open circuit is usually the easiest. Then the loss in the cable is equal to the return loss divided by two. In other words, the return loss is the total loss in the cable, to the end and back again.
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