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AN4116

Test equipment and measurement of efficiency and light load performance

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Appendix A

Test equipment and measurement of

efficiency and light load performance

The converter input power has been measured using a wattmeter. The wattmeter measures

simultaneously the converter input current (using its internal ammeter) and voltage (using its

internal voltmeter). The wattmeter is a digital instrument so it samples the current and

voltage and converts them to digital forms. The digital samples are then multiplied giving the

instantaneous measured power. The sampling frequency is in the range of 20 kHz (or higher

depending on the instrument used). The display provides the average measured power,

averaging the instantaneous measured power in a short period of time (1 sec typ.).

Figure 54 shows how the wattmeter is connected to the UUT (unit under test) and to the AC

source and the wattmeter internal block diagram.

An electronic load has been connected to the output of the power converter (UUT), allowing

to set and measure the converter load current, while the output voltage has been measured

by a voltmeter. The output power is the product between load current and output voltage.

The ratio between the output power, calculated as previously stated, and the input power,

measured by the wattmeter, is the converter’s efficiency, which has been measured in

different input/output conditions.

A.1

Measuring input power

With reference to

Figure 54, the UUT input current causes a voltage drop across the

ammeter’s internal shunt resistance (the ammeter is not ideal as it has an internal

resistance higher than zero) and across the cables connecting the wattmeter to the UUT.

If the switch of

Figure 54 is in position 1 (see also the simplified scheme of Figure 55), this

voltage drop causes an input measured voltage higher than the input voltage at the UUT

input that, of course, affects the measured power. The voltage drop is generally negligible if

the UUT input current is low (for example, when measuring the input power of UUT in light

load condition).

Figure 54.

Connections of the UUT to the wattmeter for power measurements

AM13105v1

DISPLAY

AVG

WATT METER

SOURCE

U.U.T

(Unit Under test)

INPUT

Multiplier

Voltmeter

Ammeter

OUTPUT

Switch

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