Electrical Indicating and Test Instruments 1 Introduction 161


Voltage-to-Time Conversion Digital Voltmeter


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Voltage-to-Time Conversion Digital Voltmeter


This is the simplest form of DVM and is a ramp type of instrument. When an unknown voltage signal is applied to input terminals of the instrument, a negative slope ramp waveform is generated internally and compared with the input signal. When the two are equal, a pulse is generated that opens a gate, and at a later point in time a second pulse closes the gate when the negative ramp voltage reaches zero. The length of time between the gate opening and closing is monitored by an electronic counter, which produces a digital display according to the level of the input voltage signal. Its main drawbacks are nonlinearities in the shape of the ramp waveform used and lack of noise rejection; these problems lead to a typical inaccuracy of 0.05%. It is relatively inexpensive, however.





Potentiometric Digital Voltmeter


This uses a servo principle, in which the error between the unknown input voltage level and a reference voltage is applied to a servo-driven potentiometer that adjusts the reference voltage until it balances the unknown voltage. The output reading is produced by a mechanical drum-type digital display driven by the potentiometer. This is also a relatively inexpensive form of DVM that gives excellent performance for its price.




Dual-Slope Integration Digital Voltmeter


This is another relatively simple form of DVM that has better noise-rejection capabilities than many other types and gives correspondingly better measurement accuracy (inaccuracy as low as 0.005%). Unfortunately, it is quite expensive. The unknown voltage is applied to an integrator for a fixed time, T1, following which a reference voltage of opposite sign is applied to the integrator, which discharges down to a zero output in an interval, T2, measured by a counter. The output–time relationship for the integrator is shown in Figure 7.1, from which the unknown voltage, Vi, can be calculated geometrically from the triangle as


(7.1)



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