Precision calorimetry for the accurate measurement of inverter losses

Proceedings of the International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 321-326

  Malliband, P D ^a   Van Der Duijn Schouten, N P ^a   McMahon, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Calorimeter; inverter; power loss

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; CALORIMETRY; DOMESTIC APPLIANCES; ELECTRIC INVERTERS; POWER ELECTRONICS; VARIABLE SPEED DRIVES;

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; CALIBRATION TESTS; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; HIGH-PRECISION; INVERTER; INVERTER LOSS; POWER ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS; POWER-LOSSES;

CALORIMETERS;

EID: 84961577165     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PEDS.2003.1282814     Document Type: Conference Paper

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