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I am performing an experiment that requires both positive and negative voltages to be measured. When using your ULI with a Voltage Probe, it only reads 0 to 5 volts. What can I do to measure both positive and negative voltages?

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  • Created Jan 3, 2000
    by Dave Vernier
  • Updated Jul 6, 2004
    by Jake Hopkins
  • Article #640

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The problem is that the ULI, or SBI, can only read positive voltages. Listed below are several options to read both positive and negative voltages:

A) Use our Instrumentation Amplifier (takes +/- voltages and amplifies them so that they can be read by the ULI (voltage ranges include +/- 20 mv, +/- 200 mv, +/- 1000 mv.
B) Use our Current and Voltage Probe System. The voltage range using this is +/- 6V.
C) Put a battery in series with the voltage probe of the ULI to offset the voltage you are measuring by 1.5 volts.
D) Build a simple op-amp circuit to handle the input and feed it to the ULI voltage leads.
E) Use our Go! Link or LabPro interface with a voltage probe. Both of the newer interfaces have a range of +/- 10V.

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