Ambo University Hachalu Hundessa Campus

Department of electrical and computer engineering

Electrical Measurement & Instrumentation [ECEng-4155]

ASSIGNMENT + Worksheet

1. The expected value of the voltage to be measured is 150 V. However, the measurement
gives a value of 149 V. Calculate: (i) Absolute error (ii) Percentage error (iii) Relative
accuracy (iv) Percentage accuracy and (v) Error expressed as percentage of full scale
reading, if the scale range is 0-200 V.
2. The following resistance values of a platinum resistance thermometer were measured at a
range of temperatures. Determine the measurement sensitivity of the instrument in
ohms/°C. use:

Resistance (ohm) as Temperature( OC) as

input Output

207 200
214 230
221 260
228 290

3. A moving coil voltmeter has a uniform scale with 100 divisions, the full-scale reading is
200 V and 1/10 of a scale division can be estimated with a fair degree of certainty.
Determine the resolution of the instrument in volt.
4. A basic D'Arsonval movement with an internal resistance of 50Ω and a full scale
deflection current of 2 mA is to be used as a multirange voltmeter. Design the series
string of multipliers to obtain the voltage ranges of 0 - 10 V, 0 - 50 V, 0 - 100 V, 0- 500
V.
5. Two different voltmeters are used to measure the voltage across Rb shown in the Fig
below.
The two meters used are as follows:
i) Meter with sensitivity 1kΩ /V and range 5 V.
ii) Meter with sensitivity 20 kΩ/V and range 5 V.

Calculate: a) True voltage across Rb b) Reading on voltmeter 1 c) Reading on voltmeter

2 d) % error in the two voltmeters e) % accuracy of the two voltmeters.

6. A voltmeter reads 111.5 V. The error taken from an error curve is 5.3 %. Find the true
value of the voltage.

7. A 0-100 V voltmeter has 200 scale divisions which can be read to 0.5 division.
Determine the resolution of the meter in volt.

8. Explain the difference of the following meter movements:

a. D’Arsonval

b. Electrodynamometer

c. Moving iron vane

9. A step input of 5A is applied to an ammeter. The pointer swings to 5.18 A and finally
comes to rest at 5.02 A.

a) Determine the overshoot of the reading in amperes in percentage of final reading.

b) Determine the percentage of error in the instrument.

10. A meter movement has an internal resistance of 100ohm and requires 1Ma Current
for full scale deflection. The shunting resistor, placed across the movement has a value of
100ohm .diode D1 and D2 each has an average of 400 ohm and is assumed to have
infinite resistance in the reverse direction .calculate;

(a) The value of multiplier (b) voltmeter sensitivity

11. For the network shown in the Fig. below, find the voltage reading on voltmeter, if
voltmeter sensitivity is 1KΩ/volt. If the voltmeter is replaced by another voltmeter
having sensitivity 25 kΩ/volt, find the new reading. Comment on the answer.

12. The expected value of the voltage across a resistor is 80 V. However, the
measurement gives a value of 79 V. Calculate

(i) Absolute error, (ii) % error,

(iii) Relative accuracy, and (IV) % of accuracy.