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Significantly Impedance Compliance: ©2004 IEEE
Significantly Impedance Compliance: ©2004 IEEE
Fig. 1: high current tee The shunts in the range from 2A to 10A follow the
principle shown above. The main difference is that the
core is made of a brass tube which replaces the inner
copper foil.
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Further Work
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The stepup procedure has been performed with a potential Current shunts in the range from 10 mA to 100 A have
driven circuit [1] to minimize differences when been constructed and the ac-dc transfer difference
interchanging the shunts on high and low potential. Both evaluated in the frequency range from 10 Hz up to
singlejunction and multijunction thermal converters have 100 kHz. Special Tee connectors have been made to
been employed. Below 100 mA a voltage source was used match the circuit with the limited compliance voltage of
to achieve nominal current through the converters. the current source. The introduction of a potential driven
circuit has decreased the measurement uncertainty by a
Results factor of 6 at the highest frequencies.
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