RPLaJeunesse
- Joined Jul 29, 2018
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The only easy ways to divide two multimeter readouts without using a calculator is to use either a slide rule or pencil and paper! Note that no voltages are involved here, only numbers. Now if you want to deal with voltages then you do NOT want to divide multimeter readings, you apparently want to produce a ratio of two voltages. The part you selected, AD532, will divide 2 voltages but only if the voltage used for the denominator is a non-zero positive value. So the denominator ("X") cannot be an AC voltage. It can be a DC representation of the amplitude of the AC voltage, just like what you get from reading a multimeter, and must exceed some minimum voltage or else the chip will fail to produce a correct result due to saturation (aka clipping). The numerator input ("Z") can be AC but then the result would be an AC signal at the same frequency, just scaled in amplitude. Note that this result is a voltage, NOT a number representing that voltage like you would get from a meter.