Terms & Conditions

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Why choose Calibration Connect for my calibration needs?

Calibration Connect will manage the calibration for you. If Calibration Connect can not complete the calibration in-house, we will contact our specialist providers to find someone who can. Calibration of equipment through the specialist provider will typically cost you no more than if you had gone direct because of the discount agreement between the provider and Calibration Connect.

AC

Alternating Current
An electric current that reverses its direction at regularly recurring intervals.

Ambient Temperature

The average or mean temperature of the surrounding air which comes in contact with the equipment and instruments under test.

ANSI

American National Standards Institute
Coordinates the development and use of voluntary consensus standards in the United States and represents the needs and views of U.S. stakeholders in standardization forums around the globe.

AS/NZS 3760

In-service Safety Inspection and Testing of Electrical Equipment is a joint Australia and New Zealand Standard. This standard specifies in-service safety inspection and testing protocols and criteria that satisfy the OSH obligations of employers and employees, and provides a cost effective approach to safety without jepoardising the safety of personnel or involving excessive equipment downtime.

BMC

Best Measurement Capabilities
The highest level of calibration or measurement accuracy available to a customer, provided by the calibration laboratory. Also known as Calibration and Measurement Capability (CMC). Click here to view more about our CMC's.

Conductance

The measure of the ability of a material or solution to carry an electrical current. Unit of measure is the Siemens (S).

Coverage Factor

A numerical factor k is used as a multiplier of the combined standard uncertainty in order to obtain an expanded uncertainty. In general, the value of the coverage factor k is chosen on the basis of the desired level of confidence to be associated with a measurement. With a normal distribution, k=2 giving a level of confidence of approximately 95 % that the measured value m is within ± ks of the value.

value = m ± ks

value = value of the measurement
m = measurement (or mean of measurements)
k = coverage factor
s = standard uncertainty

DC

Direct Current
An electric current flowing in one direction only and constant in value.

Digit

A measure of the display span of a meter. By convention, a full digit can assume any value from 0 through 9, a 1⁄2-digit will display a 1 and overload at 2, a 3⁄4-digit will display digits up to 3 and overload at 4, etc. For example, a meter with a display span of ±399 counts is said to be a "2 and 3⁄4 digit" meter.