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The old Current12 and Current25 Bricklets are out of stock for a while now, we finally have a replacement available: The Voltage/Current Bricklet.

The new Voltage/Current Bricklet can measure currents of up to 20A und additionally voltages of up to 36V. Thus it is also possible to determine the power (up to 720W). Beside all of the use cases of the old Current Bricklets, the new Voltage/Current Bricklet can also be used to control a battery charge/discharge circuit.

But the highlight is still to come: The measurements are done with a resolution of 1mA, 1mV and 1mW. We were very surprised about the precision that is reachable after our calibration process:

We were able to reach absolutely identical results as compared to a high end multimeter.

Tinkerforge products are available for about one year now. After the expansion of the product catalogue our next step will be to find resellers to get a bigger market presence.

Nearly directly after our start in december 2011 we had regular inquiries regarding reselling our products. At the time we had too much stuff going on at the same time and we couldn’t take proper care of the requests. Also it was often not possible for us to meet the requirements like discount, packaging or handling of returns.

With Trenz Electronic GmbH we have attracted our first reseller.Trenz Electronic was founded as a engineering company in 1992 with a focus on FPGA hardware designs. Since 2001 they have their own webshop and sell different FPGA and development boards as well as different electronic parts.

Since they develop their own hardware there is a lot of electronic experience in this company, such that questions can be answered without our help or Tinkerunity. One additional nice aspect is that Trenz Electronic also develops open source electronics, so they know what they are doing.

All Tinkerforge products will be available in Trenz Electronic’s webshop at beginning of January 2013. We are looking forward to a good cooperation!

The new hardware version of the LCD20x4 Bricklet is now available.

The new version comes with one more button and with solder points that can be used to solder on external buttons.

We just introduced a 10% discount on everything, it will continue until December 31st. Happy Christmas shopping!

The Industrial Digital In, Digital Out and Quad Relay Bricklets are now available!

All of the Industrial Bricklets are galvanically isolated. They are perfectly suited for interfacing with industrial controllers, such as PLC’s or frequency converters or to interface other 12V/24V hardware.

The Industrial Bricklets are also the first Bricklets that allow software grouping. This feature makes it possible to group up to four Industrial Bricklets together. Without grouping it would be necessary to do multiple function calls to read or set a state of a group, so the state of the group would not be read or set simultaneously. With grouping this is now possible.