Why Choose a 7½-Digit Digital Multimeter?
This option is included in the 3706 and 3706-NFP hosts. The high-performance digital multimeter is a hybrid design that integrates the 2010 DMM low-noise front-end and the 2701 high-speed design. The digital multimeter supports 13 built-in measurement functions, including DCV, ACV, DCI, ACI, frequency, cycle, 2-wire ohm, 3-wire RTD, 4-wire RTD, thermocouple, thermistor, and continuity testing.
This also includes numerous additional improvements and features to provide a technologically outstanding and feature rich digital multimeter, standing out from other integrated switch/digital multimeter solutions. Table 2 presents important improvements and features.
Why choose a 7-and-a-half-digit multimeter?
The 7-and-a-half-digit multimeter makes the 3706 host significantly superior to low-end data acquisition systems and expands system capabilities to meet the needs of higher end applications such as system or bracket level signal benchmarks. The design of a digital multimeter provides high stability and precision, supporting lower ohm and current ranges than a typical 6.5 digit digital multimeter. In addition, this gives us a competitive measurement advantage over our main competitor, the Agilent 34980A. Please refer to Table 1 for the main features and advantages of a digital multimeter.
An important application of the 3706 host is its use with the 2600 series digital source meters (in many cases, multiple digital source meters are used), which requires a simple and low-cost benchmark standard to check and validate each source measurement unit. The digital multimeter in the 3706 host can provide this capability.
