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    Polyharmonic Digital Synthesis for the calibration of phase sensitive measuring systems up to the ultrasonic band

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    A double output digital polyharmonic synthesizer suitable for the calibration of phase sensitive measuring systems and harmonics in power analyzers is being developed at INRIM. Digital-to-analog converters with high resolution and update rate simultaneously synthesize a pair of waveforms with fine trimming of electric parameters and harmonics. Its bandwidth is up to 100 MHz, verified with a wideband sampling oscilloscope, and the frequency resolution is 20mHz in the whole bandwidth. The synthesizer has been characterized in terms of amplitude, accuracy, and stability up to 1MHz by means of a programmable ac/dc transfer standard. For frequencies up to 100 kHz, a calibrated precision digitizer, configured as a phase comparator, is used for its characterization. The measured phase offset and noise at 20 kHz are 5 μrad and 300 nrad, respectively. The same digitizer has been used for the precise measure of the harmonic spurs up to 100 kHz. Instead, for the evaluation of the total harmonic distortion from 100 kHz up to 50 MHz, a wideband spectrum analyzer has been used. The algorithms employed allow the use of the synthesizer as a digital phase standard or as a polyharmonic arbitrary synthesizer with independent outputs

    Wideband digital phase comparator for high current shunts

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    A wideband phase comparator for precise measurements of phase difference of high current shunts has been developed at INRIM. The two-input digital phase detector is realized with a precision wideband digitizer connected to the outputs of the shunts under comparison through a pair of symmetric active guarded transformers. Data are first acquired asynchronously, and then transferred from on-board memory to host memory. Because of the large amount of data collected the filtering process and the analysis algorithms are performed outside the acquisition routine. Most of the systematic errors can be compensated by a proper inversion procedure. The system is suitable for comparing shunts in a wide range of currents, from 2A up to 100 A, and frequencies ranging between 500 Hz and 100 kHz. Expanded uncertainty (k = 2) less than 50 μrad, for frequency up to 100 kHz, is obtained in the measurement of the phase difference of a group of 10A shunts, provided by some European NMIs, using a digitizer with sampling frequency up to 1 MHz. An enhanced version of the phase comparator employs a new digital phase detector with higher sampling frequency and vertical resolution. This permits the contribution to the uncertainty budget of the phase detector to be decreased by a factor two from 20 kHz to 100 kHz. Theories and experiments show that the phase difference between two high precision wideband digitizers, coupled as a phase detector, depends on multiple factors derived from the analogue and digital imprint of each sampling system

    A system for controlling electrical and chemical parameters in the Faraday constant determination by dissolution of silver

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    The development of an electrochemical system for the Faraday constant determination has been undertaken at I.N.RI.M. In this system a new two-electrode cell for processing silver dissolution has been set up. The parts of this cell have been carefully designed to avoid sources of undue influence. New elements for monitoring the Ag+ ion concentration in the two half-cells have been introduced and the operations necessary to keep the electrochemical reactions under strict control have been identified and tested. The solution stability, the residue recovery, the O-2 prevention and the solution filtering process without its transfer to other containers are other merits. The electrical charge measurement equipment has been assembled and integrated with the one for monitoring the reaction parameters. A control apparatus displaying when some specific operations in the two half-cells are required has been added. The measurements showed that by employing the setup assembled with some proper precautions an uncertainty of about 1-2 parts in 10(5) can be reached, mainly limited by the silver purity, and the evolution toward a measurement system at a metrological level (parts in 10(6) or better) is attainable
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