Portable and stable source of AC voltage, current, and power

Author

Arseneau, Réjean ; Filipski, Piotr S. ; Zelle, John

Author_Institution

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

Volume

44

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

433

Lastpage

435

Abstract

This paper describes a portable and stable source of AC voltage, current, and power. It was developed for use with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) watt-voltampere (W-VA) Transfer Standard to provide high-accuracy on-site calibrations of standards maintained by Canadian electrical utilities in order to establish traceability of these standards to the NRC. The stability of the source monitored over 100 s, a typical measurement cycle of the NRC W-VA Transfer Standard, is better than 10 ppm of full scale for the voltage and current outputs. The stability of its AC power output is better than 20 ppm of full scale at all possible power factor settings. The stable source is needed to minimize test uncertainties during on-site calibrations and to take full advantage of the accuracy of the NRC W-VA Transfer Standard

Keywords

calibration; constant current sources; energy measurement; measurement standards; portable instruments; power measurement; power supplies to apparatus; signal generators; stability; 100 s; AC voltage; NRC W-VA transfer standard; calibration; current; field data; measurement standards; portable source; power; stable source; Calibration; Councils; Current measurement; Measurement standards; Monitoring; Reactive power; Stability; Standards development; Testing; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9456

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/19.377872

Filename

377872