Farnell Technology

Farnell Technology was once a trading name of Premier Farnell, a distributor of electronic components. It was a significant manufacturer of electronic laboratory and bench equipment until Farnell divested itself of manufacturing in 1995.

Constituent companies

The group of electronic manufacturing companies known as Farnell Technology included:

• BBH Windings was primarily a manufacturer of wound components, transformers and inductors.
• Farnell Instruments made a wide range of laboratory and industrial instrumentation including bench power power supplies, switch-mode power supplies, signal generators, digital voltmeters, oscilloscopes, trip amplifiers etc.
• HiVolt made high voltage power supplies for the medical and allied industries.
• Kelan Circuits manufactures printed circuit boards.
• Wayne Kerr Electronics manufactured LCR meters and Automated Test Equipment (ATE).