AMP04APPLICATION CIRCUITS output. Note that a 0 volt output is also the negative output swing Low Power Precision Single Supply RTD Amplifier limit of the AMP04 powered with a single supply. Therefore, be Figure 11 shows a linearized RTD amplifier that is powered sure to adjust R3 to first cause the output to swing positive and from a single 5 volt supply. However, the circuit will work up to then back off until the output just stops swinging negatively. 36 volts without modification. The RTD is excited by a 100 µA constant current that is regulated by amplifier A (OP295). The Next, set the LINEARITY ADJ potentiometer to the midrange. 0.202 volts reference voltage used to generate the constant current Substitute an exact 247.04 Ω resistor (equivalent to 400°C is divided down from the 2.500 volt reference. The AMP04 ampli- temperature) in place of the RTD. Adjust the FULL-SCALE fies the bridge output to a 10 mV/°C output coefficient. potentiometer for a 4.000 volts output. Finally substitute a 175.84 Ω resistor (equivalent to 200°C R9 temperature), and adjust the LINEARITY ADJ potentiometer 505V for a 2.000 volts at the output. Repeat the full-scale and the C3R8R10R3 half-scale adjustments as needed. 0.1F383BALANCE100FULL-SCALER1500R2ADJ When properly calibrated, the circuit achieves better than 26.7k26.7k73 ± 1C1 0.5°C accuracy within a temperature measurement range 80.47F from 0°C to 400°C. AMP04VOUT62RTD5Precision 4-20 mA Loop Transmitter with Noninteractive Trim0 4.00V10014R4(0C TO 400C) Figure 12 shows a full bridge strain gage transducer amplifier 1001/2 A circuit that is powered off the 4-20 mA current loop. The AMP04 OP2955V amplifies the bridge signal differentially and is converted to a R76823121k71/2 current by the output amplifier. The total quiescent current BOP295 5 drawn by the circuit, which includes the bridge, the amplifiers, 0.202V50kR54R6 and the resistor biasing, is only a fraction of the 4 mA null 1.02k11.5kLINEARITY current that flows through the current-sense resistor R ADJ. SENSE. 2.5V 6RSENSE(@1/2 FS) The voltage across RSENSE feeds back to the OP90’s input, 1kOUT2REF43IN5V whose common-mode is fixed at the current summing reference C2GND voltage, thus regulating the output current. 0.1F4 With no bridge signal, the 4 mA null is simply set up by the NOTES: ALL RESISTORS0.5%,25 PPM/C 50 kΩ NULL potentiometer plus the 976 kΩ resistors that ALL POTENTIOMETERS25 PPM/C inject an offset that forces an 80 mV drop across RSENSE. At a Figure 11. Precision Single Supply RTD Thermometer 50 mV full-scale bridge voltage, the AMP04 amplifies the Amplifier voltage-to-current converter for a full-scale of 20 mA at the The RTD is linearized by feeding a portion of the signal back to output. Since the OP90’s input operates at a constant 0 volt the reference circuit, increasing the reference voltage as the common-mode voltage, the null and the span adjustments do temperature increases. When calibrated properly, the RTD’s not interact with one another. Calibration is simple and easy nonlinearity error will be canceled. with the NULL adjusted first, followed by SPAN adjust. The entire circuit can be remotely placed, and powered from the To calibrate, either immerse the RTD into a zero-degree ice 4-20 mA 2-wire loop. bath or substitute an exact 100 Ω resistor in place of the RTD. Then adjust bridge BALANCE potentiometer R3 for a 0 volt U35.00V4mA NULLREF0262OUTN3500STRAIN2.49kGAGE BRIDGEGND0.22F50k1N4002450mV731FS5k976k0.1FU1810-TURN97.6k37AMP042k6U265%25BOP90T1P29A20mA42SPANHP45082-2810220pF+VS100k13.3k12V TO 36V5%RRSENSELOAD4-20mAUNLESS OTHERWISE SPECIFIED, ALL RESISTORS1%2010015.8kOR BETTER POTENTIOMETER < 50 PPM/CINULL + ISPAN Figure 12. Precision 4-20 mA Loop Transmitter Features Noninteractive Trims –10– REV. C