
CS110 Electric Field Meter
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PanelTemp (
Dest,Integ
)
The
PulseCount
instruction is used to count the pulses generated from sensors,
such as an anemometer or switch closures from a tipping bucket rain gauge, and
has the following parameters.
PulseCount(
Dest,Reps,PChan,PConfig,POption,Mult,Offset
)
PChan
is the number pulse channel (1 or 2) used for the measurement.
PConfig
is
a code (0-2) for three different types of pulse-count inputs; High-frequency = 0,
low-level AC = 1, and switch closure = 2.
POption
is a code to determine if
results are returned as counts for a given interval (
POption
= 0), or as frequency =
counts/(scan interval in seconds) (
POption
= 1).
8.2 Measuring Electric Field
The
CS110
instruction is used to perform the electric field measurement of the
CS110 and follows:
CS110(
Dest,Leakage,Status,Integ,Mult,Offset
)
Leakage
is a variable containing the measured leakage current in nano amps (nA)
on the charge amplifier input during the CS110 electric field measurement. A
perfect unit is 0 nA. Actual units deviate from perfection such that some have
small (<< 1 nA) positive leakage current and some have small negative leakage
current.
Status
is a variable containing numeric codes indicating various status
conditions occurring during the measurement, as defined in Appendix A.
Integ
is
a parameter indicating the length of time to perform an analogue integration
during the measurement, with options of 250
μ
s, _50Hz and _60Hz. Integration
times for _50Hz and _60Hz are 20 ms and 16.67 ms, respectively for cancellation
of unwanted 50 Hz and 60 Hz noise.
Mult
provides for convenient scaling within
the measurement instruction, and
Offset
provides for convenient incorporation of
offsets. The CS110 instruction measures the electric field utilizing the
±
250 mV
range. If the result is NAN, the instruction re-measures utilizing the
±
2500 mV
input voltage range.
8.3 Measuring Electric Field Change
CS110Shutter
(Status,Move)
Status
is a variable containing the following subset of measurement status codes
given in Appendix A: status codes 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, and 16.
Move
is a variable set to 1 to open the shutter and set to 0 for the
CS110Shutter
instruction to close the shutter.
The
CS110Shutter
instruction can be utilized along with a
Delay
instruction to
visually verify the fully opened and fully closed positioning of the CS110 shutter,
as described in Appendix D on Servicing the CS110. The
CS110Shutter
instruction can also be used to implement a Slow Antenna electric field
measurement as described in Appendix E. The CS110 panel board contains
circuitry to switch in a parallel 200 M
Ω
resistor with the 330 pf feedback
capacitor in the charge amplifier during execution of an open shutter
CS110Shutter
instruction. This results in a charge amplifier with a 66 ms time
constant implemented as a slow antenna that can be utilized to measure changes in
electric field at rates much faster than the 5 Hz maximum rate of the
CS110
electric field measurement instruction. In the slow antenna mode the CS110
becomes a field-change meter, meaning that the useful data becomes the
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