DocumentCode
2391583
Title
Calibration and testing facility for resistance welding current monitors
Author
Destefan, Dennis E.
fYear
1995
fDate
24-26 April 1995
Firstpage
440
Abstract
The lack of uniform and traceable measurement of pulsed high currents (1 kA to 200 kA) utilized in the resistance welding process has long been a problem in the welding community. A testing facility utilizing equipment and knowledge gained in the Department of Energy programs is being made available to American industry to solve these problems. Problems in making these measurements traceable to National Standards, proposed solutions, and future work is presented. Test equipment and methods are described that will be used to evaluate current sensing coils and weld current monitors. Comparison of positional errors for various current sensing coils is presented, including a machineable Rogowski coil
Keywords
Calibration; Coils; Current measurement; Electrical resistance measurement; Electrodes; Manufacturing; Measurement standards; Pulse measurements; Testing; Welding;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 1995. IMTC/95. Proceedings. Integrating Intelligent Instrumentation and Control., IEEE
Conference_Location
Waltham, MA, USA
Print_ISBN
0-7803-2615-6
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IMTC.1995.515357
Filename
515357
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