Meter...thingy
After my multimeter broke last May I've been wanting to build my own.... I ended up replacing mine with a retail one of the same type because I needed it, but I still played with the idea with of designing my own. Here is what I have so far! It only has provisions for measuring voltage and current at the moment, next is the ohmmeter. It has ranging controlled by the chip for the voltage where as the current only has two ranges, a fused 10A range, and an unfused 500mA range (I wonder about the wisdom in my fuse placement a lot here...), whereas the voltage has the following ranges:
I'm doing this as best I can with the knowledge I have, I am not looking at any kits or guides on the internet as I want to see if I can do it myself and then compare it to the "right way" to see how close I got. My biggest concerns right now is that the transistors I picked for the Voltmeter ranging can't handle the power correctly, that the fuses need better placement and that I am pretty sure (almost 100%) my differential amplifier sub-circuit is incorrect, close to right but not quite there.
Comments are of course welcomed!
Here it is:

- 5V
- 10V
- 50V
- 100V
- 200V
- 500V
I'm doing this as best I can with the knowledge I have, I am not looking at any kits or guides on the internet as I want to see if I can do it myself and then compare it to the "right way" to see how close I got. My biggest concerns right now is that the transistors I picked for the Voltmeter ranging can't handle the power correctly, that the fuses need better placement and that I am pretty sure (almost 100%) my differential amplifier sub-circuit is incorrect, close to right but not quite there.
Comments are of course welcomed!
Here it is:

Labels: circuit design, diy, EAGLE, electronics, multimeter, schematic

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