Advantages of Digital Energy Meters over Analog Energy Meters

Digital meters are basically devices used for easuring voltage, current and resistance. Most of them are portable and battery powered units as well as show measurements in the form of numbers and symbols on an electronic display.

Advantages of Digital energy meters

Digital meters functionally outperform the traditional meters in variety of ways:

· Accuracy: One of the most significant benefits of using Digital meter is its accuracy. In nonlinear loads, it’s metering is highly accurate and free from observational errors.

·  Auto Polarity: By using digital meters we can read the negative values as well. An excellent example of this is voltage. Placing the probes into the opposite polarity result in negative output. This is considered to be a huge advantage of using digital energy meter over analogue which can cause the equipment to be broken.

·Output Display: The readings of a digital meter is extremely easy to gauge as the outputs are automatically displayed in numbers through a seven segment display. Unlike the analogue type which takes time, resulting in huge chances of occurring mistakes especially for those with poor eyesight.

·Inexpensive: It measures the electricity in both phase and neutral lines and calculate power consumption based on the larger of the two currents, thereby helps in improving the cost(comparatively cheaper than analogue meters) and quality of electricity distribution. With the advent of integrated circuits, sizes and cost, the power requirements of digital meter has been drastically reduced.

· Reduce theft and corruption: It also helps in reducing theft and corruption on electricity distribution network with electronic designs and prepayment interfaces.

· Current protection: Several digital meters feature protection from sudden shifts in currents as well.

There are several brands offering quality digital energy meters and other electrical machines which help the user in reducing effort and time manually by calculating the data as well as minimizing the errors that are encountered in various daily situations.