We live in the age of technology so advanced that there are gadgets available to measure virtually everything. Measuring instruments have now become of even greater significance because not just laboratories and industries see their use but you might end up needed one for a very regular household purpose. Let’s take a look at two such devices – Particle Counter and a Digital Batter Tester.
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| Handheld Condensation Particle Counter Model 3800 |
Starting with the very fundamental question – What is a particle counter? The term basically refers to a laser based device that is used to detect and count the number of entities/particles in a particular media. The media being anything viz. air, gasses, liquids or chemicals or even surfaces. The purpose of a particle counter is to determine how clean the tested media. The information is thus used for processes like water treatment, food or drug production or manufacturing microchips. However, different particle counters are required depending on the type of media. These are Airborne/Aerosol, Liquid or Gas Particle Counters. On the basis of portability, these are classified as Handheld, Portable or Remote Particle Counters.
Now, coming to battery testers and answering the same basic question, a battery tester examines a battery and determines the remaining power and battery life. While some batteries come with an inbuilt battery tester, other devices have a tester installed in the whole system and the third kind of battery testers is portable which makes it flexible to examine various batteries.
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HIOKI 3554 BATTERY HiTESTER
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These testers can be analog or digital. A battery tester digital uses numeric LED display. When the tester’s test slot or leads are made to contact the positive and negative electrodes of the battery, the digital display lets the user know the amount of power left in the battery being tested. While smaller testers measure in the unit of milliampere-hours (mAh), large cells are measured in ampere-hours (Ah).
