Section 7. Installation
7.9.15.3 PT100 in Three-Wire Half Bridge
Example shows:
•
How to measure a PRT in a three-wire half-bridge configuration.
Advantages:
•
Uses half as many terminals configured for analog input as four-wire half-
bridge.
Disadvantages:
•
May not be as accurate as four-wire half-bridge.
Example PRT specifications:
•
Alpha = 0.00385 (PRTType 1)
The temperature measurement requirements in this example are the same as in
PT100 in Four-Wire Half-Bridge
(p. 238).
In this case, a three-wire half-bridge and
CRBasic instruction
BRHalf3W()
are used to measure the resistance of the PRT.
The diagram of the PRT circuit is shown in figure
PT100 in Three-Wire Half-
Bridge
(p. 242).
As in section
PT100 in Four-Wire Half-Bridge
(p. 238),
the excitation voltage is
calculated to be the maximum possible, yet allows the measurement to be made
on the ±25 mV input range. The 10 kΩ resistor has a tolerance of ±1%; thus, the
lowest resistance to expect from it is 9.9 kΩ. Solve for V
X
(the maximum
excitation voltage) to keep the voltage drop across the PRT less than 25 mV:
0.025 V > (V
X
* 115.54)/(9900+115.54)
V
X
< 2.16 V
The excitation voltage used is 2.2 V.
The multiplier used in
BRHalf3W()
is determined in the same manner as in
PT100 in Four-Wire Half-Bridge
(p. 238).
In this example, the multiplier (R
f
/R
0
) is
assumed to be 100.93.
The three-wire half-bridge compensates for lead wire resistance by assuming that
the resistance of wire A is the same as the resistance of wire B. The maximum
difference expected in wire resistance is 2%, but is more likely to be on the order
of 1%. The resistance of R
S
calculated with
BRHalf3W()
is actually R
S
plus the
difference in resistance of wires A and B. The average resistance of 22 AWG
wire is 16.5 ohms per 1000 feet, which would give each 500 foot lead wire a
nominal resistance of 8.3 ohms. Two percent of 8.3 ohms is 0.17 ohms.
Assuming that the greater resistance is in wire B, the resistance measured for the
PRT (R
0
= 100 ohms) in the ice bath would be 100.17 ohms, and the resistance at
40°C would be 115.71. The measured ratio R
S
/R
0
is 1.1551; the actual ratio is
115.54/100 = 1.1554. The temperature computed by
PRTCalc()
from the
measured ratio will be about 0.1°C lower than the actual temperature of the PRT.
This source of error does not exist in the example in
PT100 in Four-Wire Half-
Bridge
(p. 238)
because a four-wire half-bridge is used to measure PRT resistance.
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