BS 5813:1979

National foreword
Preface
Cooperating organizations
Section one - General
1 Scope
2 Object
Section two - Definitions
3 Definition of pulse terms
4 Pulse measurement and analysis
5 Pulse generator terms
6 Terms related to the performance of generators
7 Terms related to the conditions of testing
    operation, transport and storage
8 Limits of error
9 Technical terms
Section three - Categories of performance
                characteristics
10 Frequency category
11 Temporal category
12 Voltage (current) category
13 Power category
14 Impedance (admittance) category
15 State category
16 Dimensionless category
Section four - Types of control of performance
                characteristics
17 Control in general
18 Specific types of control
19 Multiple-controlled quantity
20 Dual-controlled quantity
Section five - Statement of performance
21 Values and limits of error
22 Required statements (described in this standard)
23 Optional statements (described in this standard)
24 Optional statements (not described in this standard)
25 Specification of characteristic quantities
26 Specification of multiple-controlled quantities
27 Specification of dual-controlled quantities
28 Form of the specification of influence error
Section six - General conditions for testing
29 Test equipment
30 Period for achievement of stable operation
31 Performance of preliminary adjustments
32 Connected load
33 Output value
34 Control of influence quantities
35 Testing
Section seven - Specific conditions for testing
36 Test conditions applicable to operating error
37 Test conditions applicable to intrinsic error
38 Test conditions applicable to influence error
39 Test conditions applicable to stability error
40 Test conditions applicable to variation

Definitions, terminology, listing of performance characteristics, criteria for evaluating performance, and tests necessary to verify performance of pulse generators and accessories.

This standard applies to the specification of pulse generators and to accessories used with generators. Specifically excluded from the scope of this standard are generators with continuous or pulsed sinusoidal outputs, television pattern generators, complex function generators, and generators for insulation resistance testing.