Digital Voltmeter

All types of digital meter are basically modified forms of the digital voltmeter (DVM), irrespective of the quantity that they are designed to measure. Digital meters designed to measure quantities other than voltage are in fact digital voltmeters that contain appropriate electrical circuits to convert current or resistance measurement signals into voltage signals. Digital multi-meters are also essentially digital voltmeters that contain several conversion circuits, thus allowing the measurement of voltage, current and resistance within one instrument.

Description
This is an easy to build, but very accurate and useful digital voltmeter. The circuit employs the ADC (Analogue to Digital Converter) ICL7107. This IC comes in a 40 pin package, all the circuitry necessary to convert an analogue signal to digital and can drive a series of four seven segment LED displays directly. The circuits built into the IC are an analogue to digital converter, a comparator, a clock, a decoder and a seven segment LED display driver. The circuit as it is described here can display any DC voltage in the range of 0-1999 Volts.

Features

Great accuracy. It is not affected by noise. No need for a sample and hold circuit. It has a built-in clock. It has no need for high accuracy external components.

Circuit Diagram

Power Supply Parts Required

R1 = 180k R2 = 22k R3 = 12k R4 = 1M R5 = 470k R6 = 560 Ohm C1 = 100pF C2 = 100nF C3 = 47nF C4 = 10nF C5 = 220nF 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01

C6 = 10uF P1 = 20k Trimmer Multi Turn U1 = IC 7107 40 Pin IC Base ICL 7660 8 Pin IC Base Common Anode LED Displays LM7805 Circuit Board

02 01 01 01 01 01 04 01

Notes
The value of R3 controls in fact the range of measurement of the voltmeter and if you provide for some means to switch different resistors in its place you can use the instrument over a range of voltages. For the replacement resistors follow the table below:

02V 0 20 V 0 200 V 0 2000 V

R3 = 0 R3 = 1.2 k R3 = 12 k R3 = 120 k

If it does not work

1. Check your work for possible dry joints, bridges across adjacent tracks or soldering flux residues that usually cause problems. 2. Check again all the external connections to and from the circuit to see if there is a mistake there. 3. See that there are no components missing or inserted in the wrong places. 4. Make sure that all the polarized components have been soldered the right way round. 5. Make sure the supply has the correct voltage and is connected the right way round to your circuit. 6. Check your project for faulty or damaged components. Source: http://goo.gl/nM7wg