You can test ketone levels at home using a urine dipstick or a blood ketone meter. If you have diabetes, check for ketones when your blood sugar is high or when you're sick. Talk with your healthcare ...

Toshiba has created a range of automotive-grade Zeners for surge protection in the 0.8 x 1.6mm SOD-523 package. Called the XCEZ series, they rated at 150 or 300mW (see below) and come in 20 E24 values ...

Martin Lewis is urging UK households to check their meter readings "now". Energy bills for typical households are set to rise from October 1, 2025, due to a 2% increase in the Ofgem price cap. The ...

Abstract: An electrical-stress test has been conducted on 98 Zener conventional reference diode structures, and it has been observed that 45% of these devices failed after 3000 h. However, this high ...

There are times when you need to bias a low-current load and simply didn’t want to add another voltage regulator, or where you need a reasonable level of voltage accuracy, so a simple voltage divider ...

How to check if the RTS electricity meter switch-off will affect you Hundreds of thousands of homes still have old-style RTS meters - and they'll stop working from 30 June, just 20 days from now. The ...

Hundreds of thousands of homes still have old-style RTS meters - and they'll stop working from 30 June, just 20 days from now. The signal that powers them is being switched off for good, and if yours ...

Find out how to check your smart meter for faults and what you should do if it's broken HOUSEHOLDS are being urged to make a key check ahead of energy bills rising next week. Millions of homes are ...

HUNDREDS of thousands of energy customers need to take action now to avoid being cut off in just a few months’ time. Households with so-called Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) meters need to upgrade to ...

tion software is one of the highly accurate metrological laboratories’ priorities. Thus, two automatic systems for con- trolling and calibrating the electrical reference standards have been ...

While using a digital multimeter to diagnose electrical problems on customers’ equipment, I frequently hear the comment, “I’ve got one of those multimeter things, but I never learned how to use it.” ...