Implementation of a test system for advanced calibration and performance analyses of flickermeters

Author

Gallo, Daniele ; Landi, Carmine ; Langella, Roberto ; Testa, Alfredo

Author_Institution

Dipt. d Ingegneria dell´´Informazione, Universita di Napoli, Italy

Volume

2

fYear

2003

Firstpage

1518

Abstract

The paper presents an implementation of a test system for advanced calibration and performance verification of flickermeters. Test include not only the complete set of IEC standard test points, but also an array of different voltage fluctuations - related to common power quality issues - that may be encountered in actual use. This is done because it can be shown that different digital flickermeter implementations fully meeting the performance tests defined in IEC 61000-4-15 can still disagree significantly in some actual measurements. After the description and the performance analysis of the test system, a commercial instrument is tested and its response is presented.

Keywords

calibration; computerised instrumentation; measurement standards; photodetectors; photometers; test equipment; IEC 61000-4-15; IEC standard test points; advanced calibration; commercial instrument testing; flickermeters; performance analysis; power quality issues; test system; voltage fluctuations; Calibration; Educational institutions; IEC standards; Instruments; Performance analysis; Power measurement; Power quality; Protocols; System testing; Voltage fluctuations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2003. IMTC '03. Proceedings of the 20th IEEE

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7705-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2003.1208003

Filename

1208003