Pendulum Instruments has announced a battery-unit option to add portability to its CNT-90XL microwave counter/analyser. The company claims that the counter/analyser is one of the fastest microwave counters with integrated power meter on the market. Together with its graphical display for measurement control, it has a frequency-measurement range up to 60GHz. It can be used for applications such as microwave-link-carrier calibration, satellite-communication equipment testing, RF- and microwave-instrumentation calibration, RF components and modules testing. Battery option 23/85 expands the applications of the counter/analyser to areas where there is no mains power available, for transporting the instrument to the measurement site, and where critical measurements cannot be interrupted by power failure. With the battery, the instrument can operate without mains power for as long as eight hours. A stand-by mode eliminates warm-up time. An external DC-to-18V input allows the instrument to operate in extended field operations, for example in vehicles. It can also be used as an uninterruptible power supply for critical measurements on the bench.
