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Digital Instruments

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An Introduction to Electrical Instrumentation

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Digital instruments display the measured quantity in discrete numerals thereby eliminating the parallax error, and reducing the human errors associated with analog pointer instruments. In general digital instruments have superior accuracy to analog pointer instruments, and many incorporate automatic polarity and range indication which reduces operator training, measurement error, and possible instrument damage through overload. In addition to these features many digital instruments have an output facility enabling permanent records of measurements to be made automatically.

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  1. Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Brighton Polytechnic, UK

    B. A. Gregory (Senior Lecturer Specialising in Electrical Instrumentation)

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Gregory, B.A. (1973). Digital Instruments. In: An Introduction to Electrical Instrumentation. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-01880-2_7

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