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PSØ2 - Digital Amplifier for Strain Gages

Precision of a Single Measurement

The precision of a single measurement (AVRate = 1) depends on 2 parameters:

  • The measurement range
  • The discharge time

As long as the update rate is not higher than 5 kHz we recommend working with measurement range 2. Setting the discharge time to 50 -100 µs, PSØ2 has the performance shown in the following table.

Internal Averaging

PSØ2 internally improves the precision of the meas-urement results by averaging. The measuring principle guarantees that no significant systematic errors affect the result. The standard deviation is improved by the square root of the averaging rate.

RMS Noise without averaiging
(
2 kHz update rate):
VccSINC3Fast-settle
5 V1.07 µV1.85 µV
3 V0.85 µV1.47 µV
2.5 V0.81 µV1.4 µV

RMS Noise with 400-fold averaging
(
5 Hz update rate):
VccSINC3Fast-settle
5 V0.033 µV0.057 µV
3 V0.030 µV0.052 µV
2.5 V0.034 µV0.059 µV