UT204 from company UNI-Trend is a near relative to the UT203. multimeter. Already UT203 provides a lot of user comfort and a very pleasant feature β measuring of a DC current without interrupting a measured circuit. However UT204 is different from its βweakerβ brother in one essential thing β it enable measuring of a true RMS value ofalternating signals (TRMS).
As we know, usual multimeters usually deploy a simple rectifier and an RC cell and theyΒ΄re calibrated to show an effective value of AC voltage β supposing an ideally sinusoidal shape of a measured variable.
In many cases, a non-TRMS multimeter is fully sufficient, but still more frequently we meet devices, which by their power consumption significantly deform originally sinusoidal shape of a mains line voltage. A vast majority of new devices is equipped with switch-mode power supplies deforming a sinusoid, as they draw current for charging of input capacitors mainly on a top of a sinusoid. This situation is partially better at power supplies with a power factor correction (PFC), but even in these cases itΒ΄s never an ideal load. At any difference from an ideal sinusoid the accuracy of a common meter significantly drops down and the error can exceed tens of percents. Similar situation is also at various DC/AC inverters (for example 12VDC/230VAC
For more detail:Β UT204 is able to measure DC current and also True RMS