New measurement capabilities of the NRC traveling standard program

Author

Arseneau, Rejean ; Filipski, Piotr ; Zelle, John

Author_Institution

Inst. for Nat. Meas. Stand., Nat. Res. Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

Volume

48

Issue

2

fYear

1999

fDate

4/1/1999 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

444

Lastpage

446

Abstract

This paper describes the improvements made to the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Watt-VA Transfer Standard and to the AC source, which are used to support the NRC Traveling Standard Program. With these improvements, NRC clients can now calibrate on-site the voltage, current, active, reactive, and apparent power functions of their standards for rms voltages up to 600 V and rms currents up to 50 A

Keywords

calibration; current comparators; current transformers; electric current measurement; power measurement; transfer standards; voltage measurement; wattmeters; waveform generators; AC source; NRC traveling standard program; Watt-VA transfer standard; active power function; apparent power function; current function; digital waveform generators; improved measurement capabilities; on-site calibration; pulse-frequency comparator; reactive power function; reference meter; step-up current transformer; voltage function; Calibration; Councils; Current measurement; Current transformers; Government; Measurement standards; Potentiometers; Power industry; Voltage; Watthour meters;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/19.769621

Filename

769621