Thermal wattmeter with direct AC/DC power conversion

Author

Grno, L.

Author_Institution

Slovak Inst. of Metrol., Bratislava, Slovakia

fYear

1994

fDate

June 27 1994-July 1 1994

Firstpage

384

Lastpage

385

Abstract

A thermal wattmeter with direct AC power to DC voltage conversion is described. A three-terminal thermoconverter (TTTC) is used for AC/DC power substitution. The TTTC enables simultaneous application of mutually independent current and voltage into the same heater and this way to force phantom power dissipation in this heater. The dissipated AC power is substituted by DC power in a self-balancing thermal bridge circuit.<>

Keywords

Schottky gate field effect transistors; bridge circuits; bridge instruments; direct energy conversion; electric sensing devices; field effect integrated circuits; insulated gate field effect transistors; power measurement; power transistors; wattmeters; GaAs; GaAs MESFET; Si; Si MOSFET; TTTC; direct AC/DC power conversion; dissipated AC power; phantom power dissipation; power meters; self-balancing thermal bridge circuit; simultaneous application; thermal wattmeter; three-terminal thermoconverter; Gallium arsenide; Isolation technology; MOSFET circuits; Power MOSFET; Power conversion; Power measurement; Temperature sensors; Thermal resistance; Thermal sensors; Wattmeters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, 1994. Digest., 1994 Conference on

Conference_Location

Boulder, CO, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1984-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.1994.333345

Filename

333345