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ryo
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Hello; I'm in need of a 0-50 mv source for testing some meters for my boss.All of the meters have iether curent or voltage scales but FS readings are all within the 0-50mv range. I thought of accordingly using a standard power supply along with a voltage divider but the resistor sizes
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sloan_man
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What type of meters? Moving coil meters are generaly rated in full scale curent, regardless of what the scale its self says unless the current limiting resistors are bulit in.
A variable power supply with a voltage divider
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ephexmonkey
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Presently one other accurate voltage source I forgotten about would be a Fluke differential voltmeter,like the 893 or similar ones. They measure voltage by bucking their internal contemptibly calibrated voltage supply against the input V,and occasionally nulling a sensitive meter.You could get one cheap on Ebay,or from a generally used
Test Equipment company.
Hook it up to your device under test(DUT),and adjust the Fluke for a full- scale reading on the DUT,and read the voltage out off the dials.
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ephexmonkey
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Keithley makes low voltage sources,try Ebay for some used ones,or look for meter calibrators.
IIRC,Keithley has a website,Google should find it.
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jochem
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Why not use the voltage divider on the input of an opamp setup as a unity gain noninverting buffer amp. The high input impedance of a noninverting amp would not load the divider,
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cutie-erichan
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Certainly you're almost always better off testing analog meters with current, cause which's what they measure.
If you need to know the voltage, measure it across the meter with a dvm.
Lots easier than tyring to build a softly calibrated voltage source. All you need is a sloppy voltage source
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