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Wheatstone Bridge

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In Tasks 2 and 3 of previous chapter’s laboratory (diode and transistor temperature sensors), we measured V ab across the 1 Ω resistor to evaluate the current. We did not measure V a and V b separately and make a subtraction, as both are on a scale of several volts (measured in 0–20 V scale), while their difference is only in millivolts (measured in 0–200 mV scale). If you have a DMM, you can connect one of its leads to the position a and the other to b to measure this tiny voltage drop. This is not really possible if you plan to develop a stand-alone sensing device.

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Yoon, JY. (2016). Wheatstone Bridge. In: Introduction to Biosensors. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27413-3_5

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