This undergraduate thesis is closely linked to my three-month internship work in the company Metrel d.d, located in Horjul Slovenia. The company specializes in measuring and regulation equipment. During the internship, my mentor Janko Mole - Head of Calibration Laboratory assigned me a task. I've built an amplifier device to check the current clamps for quality.
The project started by the design of the circuit. The amplifier circuit must accurately amplify the current from the current clamp's output. To achieve the equirement to measure the current with the smallest value of 1 mA, the amplifier circuit should be able to amplify currents as small as 1 uA. After creating a simple amplifier circuit and taking its measurements, I started making changes and adding functionality to it. Finished circuit was later built in-to the casing. By measuring and comparing the input and output signals, I've inquired information that hel-ped me the amplifier analysis. The aim was to minimize the difference between a measured output signal and its expected value under 0,1 % for any current or frequency value of an in-put signal. During the measurements, it was crucial to find and eliminate all outside influences to get the right results from the measurements taken. After my three-month practice, I retur-ned to the company and built a new amplifier device, because of the problems that were fo-und while using the old one. Measurements of electric current of the smallest required value (1 mA) were not good enough. The new amplifier device has a different amplifier circuit which correctly amplifies the smallest currents.
The main process were measurements, because of the importance for the understanding of the created circuit. All measurements were calculated in Excel. From there on, I analysed the re-sults by using tables and graphs. Improvements continued until results of the measured circuit proved that all the requirements were met.
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