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 voltage measurements have 30-40mV offset.  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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