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Automatic Wide-Range Transformer Bridge for Measurement of Capacitance and Loss-Angle Tangent

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A high-precision transformer bridge for the measurement of capacitance and loss-angle tangent over wide dynamic and frequency ranges is described. The bridge construction is based on the principle of variational calibration, which enables us to exclude the effect of the error sources on the measurement results. The principal measurement error of the capacitance does not exceed 10–6.

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  1. All-Ukraine State Scientific and Production Center for Standardization, Metrology, Certification, and Consumer Protection (Ukrmetrteststandart), Kiev, Ukraine

    M. N. Surdu & A. L. Lameko

  2. Institute of Electrodynamics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

    L. N. Semenycheva

  3. Siberian Research Institute of Metrology, Novosibirsk (SNIIM), Russia

    E. A. Abrosimov & A. A. Mamonov

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  1. M. N. Surdu
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Translated from Izmeritel’naya Tekhnika, No. 9, pp. 54–57, September, 2013.

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Surdu, M.N., Lameko, A.L., Semenycheva, L.N. et al. Automatic Wide-Range Transformer Bridge for Measurement of Capacitance and Loss-Angle Tangent. Meas Tech 56, 1054–1060 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11018-013-0329-4

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