Basic Instruments : Multimeters

Slomovitz, Daniel

Resumen:

Multimeters have more than 100 years of history and they have changed a lot over time, from the analog‐based instruments to the modern digital ones. Electronic and digital techniques have allowed the development of very high accuracy digital multimeters (DMM) with accuracies in the order of 1 part in 106. The core of DMMs is the analog to digital converter (ADC). Generally, DMMs have a set of menus that allows to adjust many parameters, such as offset, resolution, sampling rate, accuracy, and communication settings, among others. For all type of multimeters, it is necessary to take into account the loading effect that the instrument has on the device under test. Safety is an important characteristic of any type of instrument, but in the case of multimeters this is more relevant because these instruments are intended to be used in a wide range of installations.


Detalles Bibliográficos
2015
Inglés
Universidad de la República
COLIBRI
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/42690
https://doi-org.proxy.timbo.org.uy/10.1002/9781119021315.ch5
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Licencia Creative Commons Atribución - No Comercial - Sin Derivadas (CC - By-NC-ND 4.0)
Resumen:
Sumario:Multimeters have more than 100 years of history and they have changed a lot over time, from the analog‐based instruments to the modern digital ones. Electronic and digital techniques have allowed the development of very high accuracy digital multimeters (DMM) with accuracies in the order of 1 part in 106. The core of DMMs is the analog to digital converter (ADC). Generally, DMMs have a set of menus that allows to adjust many parameters, such as offset, resolution, sampling rate, accuracy, and communication settings, among others. For all type of multimeters, it is necessary to take into account the loading effect that the instrument has on the device under test. Safety is an important characteristic of any type of instrument, but in the case of multimeters this is more relevant because these instruments are intended to be used in a wide range of installations.