APPLICATION OF THE HYBRID BALANCED RATIOMETRIC MEASUREMENT METHOD IN THE HIGH-PRECISION AC THERMOMETRY BRIDGES
Aleksander A. Mikhal, Dmitro V. MELESHCHUK, Z. L. Warsza · Physics for Economy · 2019
The paper article describes the circuit of an automatic AC bridge for high precision temperature measurements using a standard platinum SPRT sensor. An original method for measuring the impedance parameters of SPRT sensor which allows to carry out the measurement process without loss of accuracy, is described in detail. This measurement method is proposed to name as hybrid method. It is a combination of a balanced method for rough compensation of the circuit and a ratiometric method which accurately measures the ratio of two values of the imbalance signal, before and after its known change. With this method, the measuring circuit also does not require a circuit to compensate for the reactive component of the SPRT sensor impedance. The inductive voltage divider with lower number of digits is needed only for the coarse compensation. This circuit is simpler and at lower cost of the hardware resources allows to achieve the same accuracy as the most accurate thermometric bridges with fully balanced circuits.