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Ambient Temperature E ects on 3 Wire RTD

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If it is necessary to perform the temperature measurement, some distance away  from where the RTD  is installed, ambient
temperature can have a detrimental e ect on the integrity of the measurement. The reason is that the leads that connect the RTD
Sensor  to the transmitter, will have resistance of their  own, and what is more, this resistance will change with changing
ambient  temperature. The error introduced by lead resistance, can of course be minimised,  if leads with very low resistance is
used.

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An ingenious approach to the lead resistance problem, is the three wire method,  illustrated in above  Figure. The three wire
method attempts to cancel the e ect of the lead resistance, by introducing the same resistance in both branches (wires c and a) of
the Wheatstone bridge. The three wire method is used extensively for  industrial RTD’s. Three leads a, b and c, connect to the
RTD and the resistance of wires a and c must be matched. This method assumes that the meter is a high impedance device, and
that essentially no current is owing in the b wire, which only acts as a voltage sense lead.

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Ambient Temperature E ects on 4 Wire RTD

The four wire method, depicted in Below Figure, alleviates many problems  associated with the Wheatstone bridge. Instead of
using a Wheatstone bridge con guration, a current source is employed to supply a constant current I, to the RTD, through wires a Like our
and d. A high impedance voltmeter M, measures the voltage developed across the RTD, via wires b and c.

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is necessary. Wires b and c only act as voltage sense leads, and with M a high impedance meter, virtually no current ows in wires
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b and c, and therefore no voltage drop in these leads and thus no lead resistance error in the measurement. The disadvantage of Sir, This w
the four wire method is that we need one more wire than with the three wire method, but it is a small price to pay if we are at all getting kn
concerned with the accuracy of the temperature measurement. The four wire method is however gaining in popularity in industry.
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