PHYWE 13621.00 Operating Instructions Manual

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Operating instructions
The unit complies with
the corresponding EC
guidelines.
CONTENTS
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SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

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PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION

3 Functional And Operating Elements
4 Notes On Operation
5 Technical Specifications
6 Modes Of Operation
7 Measurement Procedures
8 SETS OF EQUIPMENT FOR EXPERIMENTS
WITH THE ELECTROMETER AMPLIFIER:
9 Notes On The Guarantee
10 Waste Disposal
1 SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
Carefully read these operating instructions completely
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before operating this instrument. This is necessary to
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Electrometer Amplifier
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Fig. 1: Front view of the Electrometer Amplifier 13621.00.
avoid damage to it, as well as for user-safety.
Only use the instrument in dry rooms in which there is no
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risk of explosion.
Only use the instrument for the purpose for which it was
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designed.
2 PURPOSE AND DESCRIPTION
Charges that have resulted from static electricity can be
determined by transferring the charge to a capacitor of known
capacitance and measuring the electrical potential of this. It is
difficult to measure this potential with customary measuring
instruments, as a current flows through the measuring
instrument and this leads to decay of the applied charge. The
smaller the internal resistance of the measuring instrument,
the quicker the potential is reduced. Customary measuring
instruments have an internal resistance of about 10 M Ohms.
This electrometer amplifier has it its disposal a voltage input
with a very high internal resistance (> 10
so be used to measure such charges.
In general, the electrometer amplifier can be implemented to
measure so-called "soft" voltages, i.e. of voltages that break
down with small flows.
For example:
- Potential across a charged capacitor
- Voltage of a weakly lit solar cell
- Voltages that decay at a high ohmic resistance
The electrometer amplifier described here can so be used to
demonstrate many physical
Individual measuring procedures are described in section 7.
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