Friday, 4 April 2014

MERITS AND DEMERITS OF VTVM (VACUUM TUBE VOLTMETER)

A VTVM is an extremely important electronic equipment and is widely used for making different measurements in electronic circuits.

Merits:
* A VTVM draws extremely small current from the measuring circuit.  therefore it gives accurate readings.

* VTVM uses triodes, the voltage to be measured is amplified.  This permits the use of less sensitive meter.

*There is little effect of temperature variations

*It has wide frequency response

Demerits:
*Accurate readings can be obtained only for sine waves.

*It cannot make current measurements directly.