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    This document describes an activity to design and calibrate a digital wattmeter using an Arduino. The objectives are to demonstrate how to design a single-range digital instrument to measure electric power in watts and calibrate it using a calibrated wattmeter. Students will collect voltage, current and power measurements from loads like light bulbs and a soldering iron. They will derive a linear equation to represent the measurements using Excel and integrate it into the Arduino code. The conclusion is that the designed digital wattmeter worked well in combination with a voltmeter and ammeter circuit to measure different loads.

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    This document describes an activity to design and calibrate a digital wattmeter using an Arduino. The objectives are to demonstrate how to design a single-range digital instrument to measure electric power in watts and calibrate it using a calibrated wattmeter. Students will collect voltage, current and power measurements from loads like light bulbs and a soldering iron. They will derive a linear equation to represent the measurements using Excel and integrate it into the Arduino code. The conclusion is that the designed digital wattmeter worked well in combination with a voltmeter and ammeter circuit to measure different loads.

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    This document describes an activity to design and calibrate a digital wattmeter using an Arduino. The objectives are to demonstrate how to design a single-range digital instrument to measure electric power in watts and calibrate it using a calibrated wattmeter. Students will collect voltage, current and power measurements from loads like light bulbs and a soldering iron. They will derive a linear equation to represent the measurements using Excel and integrate it into the Arduino code. The conclusion is that the designed digital wattmeter worked well in combination with a voltmeter and ammeter circuit to measure different loads.

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    Saint Louis University

    School of Engineering and Architecture


    Department of Electronics Engineering

    The Wattmeter
    Activity No. 3

    Modeling and Simulation Laboratory Project

    7:30-10:30 TH H306

    SUBMITTED TO:
    ENGR. RAUL MABITAZAN
    The Wattmeter
    Activity No.3

    I. INTRODUCTION:

    The wattmeter is an instrument for measuring the electric power or the supply rate of
    electrical energy in watts of any given circuit. Electromagnetic wattmeters are used for
    measurement of utility frequency and audio frequency power; other types are required for radio
    frequency measurements.

    The most common wattmeters are the dynamometer type, in which the mechanism consists
    of an immovable coil connected in series to a load (the current circuit) and then to a movable coil,
    which is connected through a large auxiliary resistor (the resistor circuit) parallel to the load.

    Digital Voltmeters (DVMs) are a special case of A/Ds. DVMs are voltmeters - i.e. they
    measure voltage - and are general purpose instruments commonly used to measure voltages in labs
    and in the field. DVMs display the measured voltage using LCDs or LEDs to display the result in a
    floating point format.

    In this activity, an Arduino based digital wattmeter which can measure different ranges of
    electric power is designed.

    II. OBJECTIVE(S):

    1. This activity is intended to demonstrate how to design a basic single range digital
    instrument to measure electric powers in watts.
    2. This activity is also intended to demonstrate how to use a calibrated wattmeter to
    tune/calibrate the single range digital instrument to measure electric powers.
    3. This activity is also intended to demonstrate the process of using EXCEL in selecting the
    “best fitted” equation to represent the set of electric power measurements which all then be
    integrated in the design of the single range digital instrument to measure electric powers.
    III. APPLICATION:

    1. An Arduino based Digital Voltmeter is designed in this activity which can be used to
    measure different ranges of electric powers.
    2. The circuit can be extended to measure even high ranges of electric powers with slight
    modification in circuit and code.

    IV. SCHEMATIC DIAGRAM

    V. EQUIPMENTS AND MATERIALS:

    Instrumentation and digital control systems experiment board


    ACS 712
    Soldering iron as load
    Glue gun as load
    Connecting wires
    Transformer 220Vac to 6Vac
    4 Diodes 1N4001
    1 Capacitor 1000uF
    2 10k ohm Resistor

    VI. PROCEDURES:

    1. Verify your connections:


    a. The Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) to the Arduino Uno Board:
    - Pin 2 of the Arduino board to E pin of the LCD
    - Pin 3 of the Arduino board to RS pin of the LCD
    - Pins 4, 5, 6, 7 of the board to D4, D5, D6, D7 pin of the LCD
    b. Connect the circuit shown below. The output of this circuit, Vout, must be
    connected to pin A0 of your Arduino board.

    2. Open your Arduino IDE. Modify the program you encoded in testing the analog to digital
    conversion of the MCU.

    3. Download the assembled program to your MCU.

    4. Connect a AC voltmeter at the wiper/center terminal of the variAC of the circuit to


    measure the voltage inputted to your experiment board. Set the shaft of the variAC to input the
    minimum voltage to your circuit. Record the readings on the table shown below. Set the shaft of the
    variAC to at least 10 other settings.

    Setting No. 50W Light Bulb 100W Light Bulb 40W Soldering Iron
    Ammeter Reading 0.22 Amperes 0.38 Amperes 0.17 Amperes
    Voltmeter Reading 264 Volts 262 Volts 263 Volts
    Power 57 Watts 99 Watts 45 Watts
    50W Light Bulb

    100W Light Bulb


    40W Soldering Iron

    5. Use EXCEL to derive the linear equation to represent your results. Do the following steps:
    a. Open EXCEL. Tabulate your results.
    b. Mark the values you recorded in the table.
    c. Select the insert tab then point Scatter. Select Scatter with smooth lines and
    markers.
    d. Select the layout tab then point Trend line. Select More Trend line options.
    e. Check the Display Equation on chart and Display R-squared value on chart then
    close Format Trend line window.

    What is the equation of your trend line? 1.999x+0.0301


    What is the value of R2? 1
    70
    60 y = 1.999x + 0.0301
    R² = 1
    50
    40
    Series1
    30
    Linear (Series1)
    20
    10
    0
    010203040
    6. Integrate this equation in your Arduino program (sketch).

    PROGRAM LISTING:
    7. Download your compiled program to your MCU.

    8. Turn OFF the power supply of your experiment board.

    VII. OBSERVATION:

    In this experiment we have completed a wattmeter. Throughout the experiment,


    we have observed that we need to use our previous circuit of voltmeter and ammeter to
    construct the wattmeter properly. We used the voltmeter for the supply voltage reading
    and the ammeter for the current supply reading from there we can obtained the electric
    power reading given off by the supply to the load. Also, we have observed that the
    Arduino reading is lower than that the measured value, the measured value being the
    actual reading also, when compared to the LCD reading is lower.
    VIII. CONCLUSION:

    We therefore conclude that the wattmeter that we have made worked well with
    the combination of our voltmeter and ammeter circuit. Using the soldering iron and
    glue gun as two different loads gave us a chance to compare different values for the
    reading of power in watt. From the reading results and based on the graph that we had
    plotted, we have determined that relationship of the soldering iron and glue gun as
    loads is linear.

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