Thread: Determining Maximum and Minimum Counts to Expect from an Instument

Hi there,

Is there a way I can find out what the maximum and minimum voltages that a specific sensor can produce are?

For example, I can go to the MetaAggregator and information about sensitivity and sampling rate:
http://ds.iris.edu/mda/II/ESK/00/BH1/?starttime=2017-01-29&endtime=2021-02-23

but I would like to know what the maximum and minimum 'Count' to expect from a specific instrument is (so that I may place it in a scale so that the values are focused but without it going out of range). I realize these vary with the instrument, but I cannot seem to find an easy way of locating this.

Apologies if I am missing something obvious. I am working on this from a design/data science standpoint and am not a professional seismologist (though I am gaining a lot of knowledge from this project).

All the best,
Jorge



Dr. Jorge Boehringer
Research Associate, Sonification Design and Aesthetics
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK

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