The document discusses various types of electromechanical instruments and measurement errors. It describes permanent magnet moving coil instruments, which use a coil suspended in a magnetic field to measure current. The forces acting on the coil are deflection, controlling, and damping forces. Measurement errors increase for calculated values involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponents. Precision measures repeatability while accuracy reflects closeness to true values.
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Lecture No 4
The document discusses various types of electromechanical instruments and measurement errors. It describes permanent magnet moving coil instruments, which use a coil suspended in a magnetic field to measure current. The forces acting on the coil are deflection, controlling, and damping forces. Measurement errors increase for calculated values involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponents. Precision measures repeatability while accuracy reflects closeness to true values.
Measurement Error Combinations • When a quantity is calculated from measurements made by two or more instruments. The resulting error is then larger than the error in one instrument.
Sum of quantities • Where a quantities is determine as the sum of two measurements, the total error is the sum of the absolute errors in each measurements. E=(V1+V2) ± (ΔV1 ± ΔV2)
Quantity Raised to a Power • When a quantity A is raised to a power B, the percentage error in AB can be shown to be % error in AB = B(% error in A) • For a current I with an accuracy of ±3% the error in I2 is 2(±3%)= 6%
Permanent magnet moving coil (PMMC) • The PMMC instrument consists of light weight coil of copper wire suspended in the field of permanent magnet. • Current in the wire cause the coil to produce magnetic field that interact with the field form the magnet resulting in partial rotation.
Permanent magnet moving coil (PMMC) • PMMC is essentially a low level dc ammeter, however, with the use of parallel connected resistor, it can be used for wide range of direct current level. • It can also be used as dc voltmeter or ohmmeter by connecting appropriate value of resistor in series or parallel with the coil.
PMMC • A deflection instrument uses a pointer that moves over a calibrated scale to indicate a measured quantity. • Three forces are operating in this mechanism. – Deflection force – Controlling force – Damping force
• Deflecting force: It causes the pointer to move from zero position when current is applied. • In PMMC the deflecting force is magnet. • When a current flow in lightweight moving coil pivoted between the pole of permanent magnet. • A force is exerted on the current carrying coil, causing the coil to rotate on its pivots.
Suspension • Two method of supporting the moving system deflection instrument. • Jeweled bearing suspension: the pointed end of the shaft or pivot fastened to the coil are inserted into cone shaped cuts in jewel bearing. • Taut-band method: two flat metal ribbons held under tension by spring to support the coils. The ribbon also insert controlling force as they twist.