Tuesday, May 13, 2025

USB current/energy meter

$4.79 (+shipping and tax for $7.23 total) Shenzhen Rongbo Jiachuang Technology Co, before the tariff was imposed on the Chinese goods.


The device draws about 22mA by itself.  There is 0.2-Ohm resistance between the input and the output.  The current measurements seem to have about -10mA offset, which is a large error in the low current measurements; above 200mA, the measurement error is less than 5%.  It may have calibrated at around 0.5A, the common USB port current.

Fluke 87USB meter
0.0070.00
0.0310.02
0.0390.03
0.0630.05
0.0990.09
0.1420.13
0.2050.20
0.4670.47
0.9030.92
1.4381.47
2.1462.17

The DC voltage measurements have 30-40mV offset and gets worst at higher voltage (the spec is +/-0.5%).  The AC RMS voltage measurement has a bandwidth greater than 3000Hz.  And there is some sort of data manipulation, the voltage measurements do not update consistently.

It is a good enough for casual USB power measurements.


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