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CLIOwin 6.5 PCI User's Manual - Audiomatica Srl

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value and the marker reading at 1kHz. Example: known resistor value 10 Ohm, reading<br />

at 1kHz 9.3 ohm, I sense value 0.127 Ohm. Multiply 0.127 by 1.075268817, obtain<br />

0.13655914, input this new value and check everything performing a new measurement.<br />

13.5 CONSTANT VOLTAGE & CONSTANT CURRENT<br />

These were the standard approaches to measure impedance with traditional set of<br />

instruments. We will skip further theoretical discussion and go directly on how CLIO<br />

implements them. These methods both require two external components, a reference<br />

resistor of suitable and know value (where known means better than 1% tolerance) and<br />

a power amplifier. They also require two measures to be taken one after the other,<br />

changing connections in between. CLIO, by means of its processing tools can speed up<br />

things a lot but the whole procedure remains quite complicate. Whatever you are going<br />

to use MLS or Sinusoidal, all the measurement should be performed in Volts (the Y Scale<br />

should be dBV).<br />

13.5.1 CONSTANT VOLTAGE<br />

Proceeding step by step we are going to create two files, one named “reference”, the<br />

second named “device”. The two measurement files must have identical settings and<br />

identical CLIO’s output level. We choose a sensing resistor, Rs, of 1 ohm 1%. Fig.13.11<br />

shows connections for creating the reference file. The level you choose now is the total<br />

measuring level.<br />

INPUT A<br />

CLIO<br />

INPUT B<br />

OUTPUT A<br />

OUTPUT B<br />

RS<br />

BLACK<br />

RED<br />

POWER AMPLIFIER<br />

Figure 13.11<br />

The reference measurement is shown in Fig 13.12. As expected the output of the<br />

amplifier appears as a straight line. Should not be so, this would not be a problem as<br />

the whole procedure compensate for any deviation in the frequency response. More<br />

interesting is the absolute level. As Rs value is small, this level appears nearly<br />

unchanged to the speaker. We read -12dBV that translate in 250mV.<br />

0.0<br />

CLIO<br />

180.0<br />

dBV<br />

Deg<br />

-10.0 108.0<br />

-20.0 36.0<br />

-30.0 -36.0<br />

-40.0 -108.0<br />

-50.0 -180.0<br />

10 Hz<br />

100 1k 10k 20k<br />

Chapter 13 - Measuring impedance and T&S parameters 133

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