Selecting the appropriate sensor

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I use an analog input (AI) reading board with 12 bit resolution and read range +-10V. The board AI reading error is given as +-5mV.

I need select a pressure sensor, one of them gives 0-5V output, the other gives 0-10V, so which is ideal for my board.

Thanks.

Best Answer

What you should do is choose the sensor which has the widest output swing which doesn't go beyind the input range of your analog input.

The 0-10v sensor has double the range of the 0-5v sensor, and doesn't go beyond the input range of ±10v. Therefore you should choose the 0-10v sensor.

Since that sensor covers half of the analog input range, you will use 11 of the 12 bits of resolution.