6½ Digit Multimeter User's Manual Section 9: Measuring power using digitizing and TSP-
DMM6500-900-01Rev. A / April 2018 9-7
node[1].display.changescreen(display.SCREEN_USER_SWIPE)
node[1].display.settext(display.TEXT2, "Average Power: ".. string.format("%8f",
average_power) .. " W")
node[2].display.settext(display.TEXT2, "Average Power: ".. string.format("%8f",
average_power) .. " W")
Results
The voltage and current waveforms captured on the DMM6500 show the power consumption
resulting from the use of the DUT. You can identify the transmission state of the device by the areas
of high current consumption and the visible drop in voltage from the battery. Because these
measurements are triggered within 2 µs of each other, the voltage and current data is synchronized
nearly point-for-point.
You can expand on this example by importing the data from each of the instruments’ buffers to a
computer and analyzing the data more closely.
Figure 44: Master node measuring voltage
Figure 45: Master node voltage waveform