Re: [Elecraft] Bird Wattmeters

2010-01-03 Thread AD6XY
Bird Trulines were designed a long time ago. Yes they are good but not that good. Certainly not a calibration standard. With a pure signal they give good results within their specification. With this type of meter it is very important to make sure there are no harmonics in the signal as the eleme

[Elecraft] Bird Wattmeters

2010-01-03 Thread David Robertson
Working in the electronic calibration field for some years I have found that any mechanical meter movement has it's greatest accuracy at full scale only. the meter movement's accuracy diminishes as you go down in scale. So if a Bird Wattmeter is calibrated for 5% accuracy at full scale then it's