DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH
Name : E. Sunil Kumar
Designation : Lecturer
Branch : A.E.I.E
Institute : K.D.R.G.P.T, Wanaparthy
Semester : VI
Subject : Industrial Electronics, PLC & SCADA
Subject code : AEI-602
Topic : Opto-Electronic Devices
Duration : 100 mts
Subtopic : Bar Graph Display
Teaching Aids : PPTS, Animations, Diagrams
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 Objectives

On completion on this session, you would be

able to know:

• Introduction to Bar Graph Display

• Explain the construction of Bar graph display circuit

• List different types of bar graph display

• List the applications of bar graph display

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 Introduction

• LED is the basic display device

• LEDs are rectangular bar shaped

• Bar LEDs are arranged vertically or horizontally

• They display increase or decrease of a quantity on a

calibrated scale

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 Construction

• A bar graph display device is available as a component

with all bar LEDs integarted within the component.

• This component is connected by a driver IC

• The circuit consists of other necessary capacitors and

resistors

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 Construction…
Construction of a Bar graph circuit is shown

Driver
IC Bar Graph
component

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Circuit Diagram

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 Types of Bar Graph Displays

• Basically there are two types of Bar Graph Displays

1) Horizontally mounted LED bars

2) Vertically mounted LED bars

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 Horizontally Mounted
Bar graph Process Display

30-segment bar graph meter with 75 mm (3") scale length

for 4-20 mA, 0-1 mA, 0-10V, or 1-5 V signals.
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Vertically Mounted

Large Bar graph Process

Display

50-segment bar graph meter with

250 mm (10") scale length for 4-20
mA, 0-1 mA, 0-10V, or 1-5 V
signals.

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 Applications

• Used to display bar graphs of a quantity of a process

variable

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 Summary

We have discussed about

• Fundamentals of bar graph display

• Construction of bar graph circuit

• Types of bar graph displays

• Applications of bar graph displays

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 Quiz

1) Basic display device in bar graph display

a) LED

c) LDR

e) LASER

g) None

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 Quiz

2) Bar graph displays are used to display

a) Numbers

c) Alphabets

e) Alphanumerical

g) Bar graph of a process

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 Frequently Asked Questions

1. List the important components of bar graph circuit

2. List different types of bar graph displays with examples

3. List the applications of bar graph displays

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