This updated version is based on the material submitted for the 2020 reinstatement of Working Group 120. The basic approach for the new organization is to provide general guidelines intended to assist nonelectrical engineers and technicians involved in quality control, acceptance, and prototype testing where electrical instrumentation is the main tool for measuring, observing, or recording physical quantities. The contributors strived to maintain the relevant and important knowledge that was previously carefully collected and update this as appropriate.
- Sponsor Committee
- PE/PSIM - Power System Instrumentation and Measurements
- Status
- Active Standard
- PAR Approval
- 2019-03-21
- Superseding
- 120-1989
- Board Approval
- 2023-09-21
Working Group Details
- Society
- IEEE Power and Energy Society
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- PE/PSIM - Power System Instrumentation and Measurements
- Working Group
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Std 120 - WG on Test Guide for Electrical Measurements in Power Circuits
Learn More About Std 120 - WG on Test Guide for Electrical Measurements in Power Circuits - IEEE Program Manager
- Patrycja Jarosz
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- Harold Kirkham
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120-1989
IEEE Master Test Guide for Electrical Measurements in Power Circuits
Instructions are given for measuring electrical quantities that are commonly needed to determine the performance characteristics of electric machinery and equipment. Methods are given for measuring voltage, current, power, energy, power factor, frequency, impedance, and magnetic quantities, with either analog or digital indicating or integrating instruments, in DC or AC rotating machines, transformers, induction apparatus, arc and resistance heating equipment, mercury arc, thermionic, or solid-state rectifiers and inverters. Ancillary instruments and equipment are discussed. Computer-based techniques and the use of optical fibers in instrumentation are considered.