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Application Notes: Precision Measurements with Low Therma
Abstract: Working together with leading laboratories around the world, we have identified a variety of automated systems that optimize results for low-level DC measurements. This paper presents various methods for measuring voltage, resistance, and temperature with uncertainties below 1 ppm. In each case, the goal of automation is not simply to save labor, but also to improve accuracy as well.
NBS Technical Note 430: Designs for Surveillance of the Volt
Authors: W. G. Eicke and J. M. Cameron
Abstract: When a local standard such as that for electromotive force is maintained by a group of standards, procedures must be established to provide evidence that the group has maintained its original value. One also needs methods for the transfer of the value to test items that provide efficient use of measurement effort while monitoring the measurement process and providing information for updating the values of process parameters. Solutions to the more general problem of transferring the value from laboratory to laboratory and of maintaining agreement among laboratories depend on the existence of control within the laboratories.
This note is one of a number of contemplated reports having the general aim of providing methods for the surveillance of measurement processes with emphasis on the amount and kind of information needed for the estimation and control of the uncertainty in measurement.
Publish Date: August 1967, by NBS (presently NIST)
Paper: Design and Evaluation of a Low Thermal Electromotive
Authors: Dean G. Jarrett, James A. Marshall, Thomas A. Marshall and Ronald F. Dziuba
Abstract: The design and testing of a low thermal electromotive force guarded scanner, developed to provide completely guarded switching when used with actively guarded resistance bridge networks, is described. The design provides a continuous guard circuit trace on the scanner circuit boards that surrounds the relay contacts and protects the measurement circuit from leakages to ground. Modification to the circuit boards and relays of the guarded scanner are explained. Several tests were developed to evaluate the guarding effectiveness, including isolating sections of the guard circuit to create a potential drop between the main and guard circuits. Calibration of standard resistors using the guarded scanner has shown relative differences less than 1 X 10-6 ,30 X 10-6 , and 150 X 10-6 for measurements made with and without the guarded scanner at nominal resistances of 1, 10, and 100 GW, respectively. The substitution method was used to significantly reduce the relative differences between channels to less than 0.5 X 10-6 ,3 X 10-6 , and 30 X 10-6 for nominal resistances of 1, 10, and 100 GW, respectively. Applications for the guarded scanner in automated direct current measurement systems are presented.
Publish Date: June 1999, REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, Volume 70, Number 6
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Driver for LabVIEW
A driver for all Data Proof Scanners is now available for National Instrument's LabVIEW software. Customers can download the following file for the driver and documentation.
Software Instrument Drivers included in VoltRef and OhmRef
Programming Tips for Data Proof Low Thermal Scanners
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