What is meant by “Analog instrument”?

 The analogue instrument is defined as the instrument whose output is the

continuous function of time, and they have a constant relation to the input.
 The physicals quantity like voltage, current, power and energy are
measured through the analogue instruments.
 Most of the analogue instrument use pointer or dial for indicating the
magnitude of the measured quantity.
What is meant by digital instrument?

 The instrument which represents the measurand value in the form of the
digital number is known as the digital instruments.
 It works on the principle of quantization.
 The quantization is the process of converting the continuous input signal into
a countable output signal
Advantage of using digital instruments
over analog instruments
 The digital instruments display the reading in the numeric form which
reduces the error.
 The digital output is obtained by the instrument which acts as an input for
the memorable devices like floppy, recorder, printer etc.
 The power consumption is less in the digital instruments.
Disadvantage of using digital
instruments?
 The overloading capacity of the instrument is low.
 It is a temperature sensitive device.The digital instrument is made by the
very delicate element which is easily affected by the atmospheric
condition.
 The effect of noise is more on digital electronics as compared to the
analogue instruments.
 In spite of the above mention disadvantages, the digital instrument is very
commonly used for the measurement.
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