• DocumentCode
    1455850
  • Title

    A power comparator with high accuracy: simple and inexpensive

  • Author

    Laiz, Héctor ; García, Ricardo

  • Author_Institution
    Nat. Inst. of Ind. Technol., Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Volume
    46
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    4/1/1997 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    420
  • Lastpage
    422
  • Abstract
    This paper describes a thermal wattmeter that measures ac power within 10×10-5 (1 σ) at power frequencies. The instrument relates ac power to dc standards. Its main achievement is that its few components can be separately evaluated and by this means its total uncertainty estimated
  • Keywords
    comparators (circuits); measurement errors; power measurement; wattmeters; ac power measurement; power comparator; power frequencies; thermal wattmeter; total uncertainty; Current transformers; Electrical resistance measurement; Instruments; Laboratories; Magnetic flux; Switches; Temperature; Voltage control; Voltage transformers; Wattmeters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9456
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/19.571871
  • Filename
    571871