E0308

The E0308 is a digital panel voltmeter, made by IEMI in Bucharest and designed at the ICE research institute [1]. The minutes of its prototype approval, under contract 760/1983, give November 1984 as the deadline [2].

ICE’s laboratory for electronic instruments for measuring electrical quantities designed all the institute’s generations of oscilloscopes, voltmeters, multimeters, signal generators, frequency meters, logic analysers, RLC bridges and stabilised AC power supplies; they went into production at IEMI or in ICE’s own microproduction workshop, and equipped industrial laboratories and production lines as well as teaching and research laboratories [1]. In the 1970s and 1980s about half of the components of measuring instruments were imported; after 1980 about three quarters were Romanian [1].

It was meant for building into installations or systems, to measure any physical quantity first converted into a DC voltage [3]. IEMI’s production table lists 5 units made in 1985 [3].

Annex III.2.8 adds that its parallel BCD outputs, latched and separate, and its start, read and data-valid control lines let it be connected directly to a microprocessor system bus [4].