New California Instruments RS Series External Drive Option Provides Real-Time Control for Hardware-in-the-Loop Tasks

CONTACT: Craig Frahm, 858-678-4459, craig.frahm@ametek.com  SAN DIEGO – AMETEK Programmable Power, the global leader in programmable AC and DC power test solutions (www.programmablepower.com), has released the External Drive (-EXTD) option for its California Instruments RS Series of high-power regenerative programmable AC sources. The External Drive option gives users a simple, low-cost way to directly control the output of an RS Series power source in real time, enabling them to be more easily used in hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test systems.  Hardware-In-the-Loop (HIL) is a technique