Cable Analysis and Fault Detection with Bode 100
It is easy to analyze coaxial cables with Bode 100.
For standard measurement situations in electronic labs most of the time only the impedance of a coaxial cable matters. But as soon as it comes down to special applications many additional parameters such as the cable's attenuation and its dielectric constant matter.
In our application note we demonstrate how easily Bode 100 can be used to measure these important parameters.
Based on these cable parameters in combination with the reflection's phase shift over the frequency it is easy to calculate the length of a cable (or the position of a cable break) using the following formula:
To gather more information about the methods used to measure the cable's impedance, dielectric constant, length and attenuation please download our application note:
