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- From: gjw@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Mr Garry J. Wardrope)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: does dbuV = uV ???
- Message-ID: <By63zE.4JC@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 11:59:38 GMT
- References: <41306@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> <1992Nov20.080405.44969@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
- Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.
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- jronnau@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
-
- >dBuV is a logarithmic-relative measure defined as follows:
-
- > dBuV = 10*log10( x uV / 1 uV)
- > where x is the voltage in microvolts.
-
- >This relationship yields:
- > 1 uV => 0 dBuV
- > 2 uV => 3 dBuV
- > 10 uV => 10 dBuV
- > 100 uV => 20 dBuV
-
- >dBuV is a nice shorthand way of describing wide dynamic range measurments.
-
- >Jim Ronnau
- >JRONNAU@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU
-
- This is not actually correct the factor of 2 is missing. The correct
- story is as doherty@melpar (Kevin Doherty) writes:
-
- > dbuV = decibels referred to one microvolt; ie, 0 dbuV = 1 uv; 20 dbuV is
- >10 uV; 40 dbuV = 100 uv; 60 dbuV = 1 mV; etc. dbuV = 20 log (volts)
- >
-
-
- Bels are the log of a power ratio and decibels are 10ths of a bel.
-
- i.e. value in decibels is 10 * log(p1/p2)
-
- p2 is your reference power. There are various standards used depending
- on what you are measuring (e.g. threshold of hearing for sound levels).
-
- As we all should know power is proportional to voltage squared so
- the ratio is then (v1/v2) squared This is the same as multiplying the log by 2
- so the formula becomes:
-
- value in decibels is 20 * log(v1/v2)
-
- The actual value depends not only v1 but v2 if we choose v2 as 1 uV then we
- have:
-
- value in decibels reference 1 uV (dbuV) is 20 * log(v1/1uV)
- or
- value in decibels reference 1 uV (dbuV) is 20 * log(v1 uV)
-
-
-
- Hope this clears up any confusion over the slightly differing explanations
- given previously.
-
-
- Garry
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