Clarke-Hess

Clarke-Hess Communications Research Corp., founded in 1969, is an electronics test and measurement company specializing in dc/low frequency applications. The company’s customers include the world’s national standards laboratories, military agencies and commercial and industrial firms. Dedicated to precision instrumentation, Clarke-Hess has earned a reputation for quality, service and outstanding performance.

Customers of the Clarke-Hess power analyzers include most of the computer, aircraft, telephone, power supply, electric locomotive, transformer, ferrite, fluorescent lamp and lamp ballast, ultrasonics, and motor control companies throughout the world. They include any company that needs to measure the loss in iron core or ferrite components, the loss in electronic lamp ballasts, the loss in capacitors, or the power in any sort of distorted, low power factor, or broadband wave-shape. They are also used in modern university teaching laboratories.

In the U.S., other agency and commercial users of Clarke-Hess Phase Standards include N.A.S.A., the Army, Air Force, the Navy, Boeing, Rockwell, Honeywell, Curtis Wright, Dranetz/BMI, Fluke, TRW, LTV, Philips, Duke Power, Southern California Edison, Consolidated Edison, GEC/Marconi, Scientific Atlanta, General Electric and many other companies and testing laboratories.