Electrical Engineering Department

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De La Salle Univeristy – Dasmarinas

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Dasmarinas City Cavite, Philippines

EEET515La – INSTRUMENTATION AND CONTROL

LABORATORY

EXPERIMENT NO. 3

STATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS

Prepared by:
Genessa T. Gargar
EEE52

Submitted to:
Engr. Cyril S. Felix
October 2019
OBJECTIVES:

1. To observe some static characteristics of selected measuring

instruments.

2. To compare the static characteristics of similar instruments.

INSTRUMENTS AND APPARATUS:

1. Analog Voltmeter module

2. Digital Multi-tester

3. DC power supply

4. Connecting wires

PROCEDURE:

1. With all the required instruments and apparatus set upped, connect

the digital multi-tester to the LabVolt.

2. Set the input voltage to 10V and turn on the DC power supply.

3. Record the readings from the digital multi-meter on table 1.

4. Repeat procedures 2 and 3 for five trials for each input voltage with

10V increment.

5. Compute for the percentage difference, ratio of Vo and Vi, the

average accuracy, precision, repeatability and average sensitivity.

I. OBSERVATIONS AND ANALYSIS

a. Data Results of the Graph

Figure 1.a - Vi vs. Vo

Figure 1.b - Vi vs. Accuracy

Figure 1.c - Vi vs. Sensitivity

 Observing the obtained data, the graph for the accuracy and

sensitivity are approximately equal to one another since both

characteristics have the same value.

 Meanwhile, it can also be noted that as the value of the input

voltage increases, the average accuracy and sensitivity also

increases likewise to the value of output voltage (Vo). Thus, the

relationship of the input voltage to the said characteristics are

directly proportional to each other.

 b. Behaviour of Vi and Vo

 Based on the data obtained as shown in Table 1.a, as the

Input voltage (Vi) increases from 10V to 50V (with 10V

increment), the Output Voltage (Vo) also increases. Thus,

the relationship between the two Voltages are directly

proportional to each other.

c. Comments on Precision and Repeatability

 As per definition, Precision is the closeness of agreement

among a set of results while Repeatability is the variation

in measurements taken on the same item under the same

conditions. In engineering, precision and repeatability

both are same. It is the ability of instrument to produce

same measurement results again and again. Based on

the data obtained as shown in Table 1, Precision and

Repeatability correspond to the same value as Vo.

II. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

 As a whole, the activity enable the students to observe some

static characteristics of selected measuring instruments as well as

to compare the static characteristics of similar instruments.

The ability of analytical instruments to provide consistent,

reliable and accurate measurement is crucial to helping ensure they

provide the expected levels of performance. Static characteristics of

an instrument is set of criteria defined for the instruments, which

are used to measure the quantities which are slowly varying with

time or mostly constant, which do not vary with time. The main

static characteristics discussed in this activity are Accuracy,

Precision, Repeatability and Sensitivity.

With Input Voltages (Vi) of 10V, 20V, 30V, 40V and 50V, the

Output Voltages (Vo) were measured using a Multi-meter with 5

trials for each Vi.

The Accuracy, defined as the difference of a measured value

compared to its actual (true) value was obtained by computing for

the average of the output voltages (Vo) with average values of

4.25V, 15.76V, 26.70V, 36.66V and 46.5V for each input voltages.

Meanwhile, the Precision and Repeatability defined as the ability

of instrument to produce same measurement results again and

again was concluded to have the same value as the output voltage

(Vo). While the average value of Sensitivity defined as the ratio of

change in output of an instrument to the change in input has the

set of values as the Accuracy.

At the end, it can also be concluded that the experiment’s

results show that either the instrument (digital multi-tester) used

by the group to measure the output voltage or the DC power supply

(LabVolt) is faulty since the Input Voltage resulted to a different

value of Output Voltages resulting to large values of percentage

differences.

CITATION:

 Instrumentation Monthly contributor (July 20, 2018). Are

accuracy, precision and repeatability the same thing?

Retrieved from www.instrumentation.co.uk/are-accuracy-

precision-and-repeatability-the-same-thing/

 Static & Dynamic Characteristics of Measurement System

Retrieved from mediatoget.blogspot.in/2012/01/static-

dynamic-characteristicsof.html