Electrical Measurements Lab

Answer all the Questions

1. Name the errors caused in current transformer.

2. State one advantage and one disadvantages of LVDT?

3. What is the sensitivity of Wheatstone bridge?

4. Are RTDs and thermocouples intrinsically safe? If so, why?

5. How the range can be extended in PMMC instruments.

1. Design a Bridge Circuit which along with modern operational amplifiers can be used to

interface various transducers and sensors to these amplifier circuits.

2. Design a Bridge Circuit used as standard testing instrument for accurate measurement of

resistances such as shunts, copper & aluminum conductors/ wire and specific resistance

determinations of heavy distribution transformers.

3. Design a Bridge Circuit that is limited to the measurement of low Q values (1-10) and

the measurement is independent of the excitation frequency.

4. Design a Bridge Circuit that gives accurate results only when the capacitors taken are

free from dielectric losses.

5. Design a sensor that uses a non-conducting material called the carrier which helps detect

even a small change in resistances.

6. Plot the characteristics of a linear device which produces infinite resolution, very high

output and also very high sensitivity with very low power consumption.

7. Find the value of resistances with the help of a sensor which is made of two dissimilar metals

joined so that a potential difference generated between the points of contact is a measure of the

temperature.

8. Find the value of resistances, with the help of a sensor which operates on the principle that

electrical resistance of certain metals changes in a predictable way depending on the rise or

fall in temperature.

9. Design a sensor circuit which finds its application in found in every day appliances such

as fire alarms, ovens and refrigerators. They are also used in digital thermometers and in

many automotive applications to measure temperature.

10. Calibrate and name the device that uses series and shunt magnets with adjustable bands

due to which the flux is in quadrature with the applied voltage.

11. Calibrate an ammeter using multimeter and plot its calibration curve and error curve.

12. Extend the range of an ammeter using an instrument transformer.

13. Extract and plot the IV characteristics of a photo conductor.

14. For a photocell show graphically how the current is affected with the changes in the

resistances.