Op-amp with constant gain for small signal(mV)

Question

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I want to measure current using shunt resistor and I want to amplify the voltage over the shunt using an op-amp. The shunt resistor gives 60mV @ 60A. I tried LTC 1050(http://cds.linear.com/docs/en/datasheet/1050fb.pdf) but for input <20mV the gain is not constant. The op-amp has a supply of +/5V. Vout is the signal that I want to send to ADC NI 9215, which has ±10 V measurement range and 16-bit resolution. Do you know what features the op-amp should have for this purpose? Which op-amp do you suggest to use? Which circuit is the best for this application?

Thanks

Answer 1

Do you know what features should have the op amp for this purpose?

for that particular circuit, you need dual supply (or a beyond-the-rail opamp), zero offset opamp. it is not a good circuit to measure current.

google current sense amplifier.

Answer 2

You need a opamp that includes ground in its common mode input range. You didn't provide a link, so we don't know if the one you are using has this spec.

However, even for opamps that supposedly can handle input signals down to ground, it can often be a good idea to get them out of that region by providing a little negative supply. Just a charge pump running from something that toggles often is good enough. Sometimes it's easy to arrange for a microcontroller to put its clock on a spare output pin, for example.

Update

You have now changed the description of your circuit to this schematic:

This is very unlikely to work. A TL081 is inappropriate here. Note that with ±15 V supply, its common mode input range is only ±11 V and its output voltage swing ±12 V with 10 kΩ load. Put another way, it needs 4 V input headroom from each supply, and 3 V output headroom. The datasheet doesn't say how this might scale to only a ±5 V supply, but probably not well at all. This amp really isn't intended for only a ±5 V supply.

There are plenty of opamps that would work fine in this application with ±5 V supply, but the TL081 is not one of them. You need to actually READ THE DATASHEET!