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A vector impedance meter is used to measure impedance and phase angle, this is done by calculating voltage and current through an impedance and then calculating Z and phase angle with that, now there are two modes for operation i.e constant current mode and constant voltage mode.

CONSTANT CURRENT MODE

construction = first of all there is a wien bridge oscillator(w) to choose frequency then an AGC amplifier(a) to regulate current then a z switch control(zs) which regulates gain of AGC amplifer,

feedback to AGC amplifier is done by an dc differential amplifier(dc)

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w--------->a--------->z

now there is an ac differential amplifier too(ac) which gets one input from the z switch and one from the unknown impedance(imp), and there is a transconductance amplifier too which gets one of his input from the unknown impedance

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w--------->a--------->z----------->ac-------------|------------> z meter

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working---> in constant current mode we have to maintain constant current through impedance so current is made to come to unknown impedance from z switch, then that current goes through trans-resistance amplifier, which converts that current to a voltage that is sent to a dc differential amplifier and is compared with a reference voltage in dc differential amplifier then the difference between voltages is amplified and sent to AGC amplifier, so AGC together with z switch this way maintains constant current through unknown impedance,

now for calculation z-magnitude,

ac differential amplifier gets input from unknown impedance and z switch, so difference is amplified and sent to a band pass filter which filters out then the filtered signal is sent to a z-magnitude meter which is calibrated to read z directly.

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