Ratiometric is used to describe an output signal which changes in proportion to a change input or supply voltage.
A typical ratiometric device would be a strain gauge output pressure sensor, where the output sensitivity is described as a ratio between output and input supply voltage.
If the sensor is described as having a 3 mV/V ratiometric output sensitivity, this means that the full span output will increase by 3 millivolts for every 1 volt increase in supply voltage.
Measurement Signal Related Terms
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- 2 Wire
- 3 Wire
- 4 to 20 mA Current Loop Output Signal
- 4 Wire
- Amplified Voltage Output
- BFSG – Bonded Foil Strain Gauge
- Deadband
- Digital Interface
- FSO – Full Scale Output
- HART®
- High Frequency Response
- Intrinsic Safety
- Measurement Signal
- Millivolt Output Pressure Transducers
- mV/V – Millivolts per Volt Output Signal
- NC – Normally Closed
- NO – Normally Open
- Piezoresistive Strain Gauges
- Pressure Transmitters
- Rangeable
- Span
- Span Offset
- Span Sensitivity
- Square Root Extraction
- Threshold
- Totalizer
- Transducer
- Transmitter
- TSL – Terminal Straight Line
- TSS – Thermal Span or Sensitivity Shift
- Turndown Ratio
- USB
- Vented Cable
- Voltage Output Pressure Transducers
- Wheatstone Bridge Strain Gauge
- Zero Offset
- Zero Tare