A calibration procedure for computer controlled multichannel pulse-height analyzer

Author

Cacciari, M. ; Contin, A.

Author_Institution

Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica Elettronica ed Inf., Trieste Univ., Italy

fYear

1993

fDate

28-30 Sep 1993

Firstpage

97

Lastpage

98

Abstract

The availability of a Computer Controlled Multichannel Analyzer (MCA) Measurement System, for partial discharge (PD) measurements, opens interesting possibilities to develop software tools devoted to assist the calibration procedures. In this paper, a calibration routine designed to establish a correlation between the quantization level of the A/D converter and the apparent charge quantity in a complete test circuit, is presented and discussed. The proposed procedure is based on statistical processing of the calibration signals produced accordingly to IEC Std (1) or ASTM Std (2). In order to evaluate the correctness of the calibration results, some calibration factors are proposed

Keywords

calibration; computerised instrumentation; partial discharges; pulse height analysers; quantisation (signal); A/D converter; calibration; charge quantity; computer controlled multichannel pulse-height analyzer; partial discharge measurements; quantization; software tools; statistical signal processing; test circuit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Partial Discharge, 1993., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Canterbury

Print_ISBN

0-85296-579-6

Type

conf

Filename

341421