Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating data representing the electrical characteristics of a combustion vessel, the combustion vessel being operable to combust a fuel. The apparatus includes a matrix of nodes 132 arranged on an ohmic material of the combustion vessel, a wire 116A, 116B, 118A, 118B, connected to each respective node 132 and a switch SW1, SW2 connected to each wire and to a current source. A circuit 110A, 110B for reducing leakage currents uses an added series element, optimally a diode D1, and feedback control of the voltage across the diode to a set point of zero volts to effectively reduce the off-state leakage current of each switch SW1, SW2.

Abstract: An apparatus for evaluating data representing the electrical characteristics of a combustion vessel, the combustion vessel being operable to combust a fuel. The apparatus includes a matrix of nodes 132 arranged on an ohmic material of the combustion vessel, a wire 116A, 116B, 118A, 118B, connected to each respective node 132 and a switch SW1, SW2 connected to each wire and to a current source. A circuit 110A, 110B for reducing leakage currents uses an added series element, optimally a diode D1, and feedback control of the voltage across the diode to a set point of zero volts to effectively reduce the off-state leakage current of each switch SW1, SW2.

Abstract: An ultrasonic testing system can receive data from at least two ultrasonic transducers and process the data in parallel to each other. The testing system can compress the data by a fixed ratio by storing the value of the sample having the highest-amplitude out of a group of samples. The testing system can also provide threshold-based run-length encoding by compressing data by only storing samples which exceed a user-defined threshold value as well as a user-defined range of samples surrounding said samples. The ultrasonic testing system also provides a hardware gate for storing a peak amplitude and associated time-of-flight for a user-defined interval and a gate for storing the time-of-flight for the first excursion of the data through a user-defined threshold and interval. The operation of these gates or the storage of waveform data may be delayed by a constant delay or until the data exceeds a user-selectable threshold during a user-selectable time interval.