Hi, only overpressure is specified in the maximum ratings in all the datasheets I've seen for pressure sensors. I'm using the MPL115A sensor, and there it's specified 1000kPa overpressure as a maximum. What is the maximum underpressure for this component? Will it handle -0.5 Bar?
Hello Roger,
Absolute Pressure Sensors like the MPL3115A are designed to measure an external pressure relative to a zero–pressure reference (vacuum) sealed inside the reference chamber of the die during manufacture. You mentioned that you would expose the sensor to -50kPa (-0.5Bar), how did you measure that level? Did u use a gauge manometer?
If that’s the gauge pressure level inside a chamber (tank or something similar), then you would be exposing the MPL115A to the atmospheric level minus 50kPa, which is around positive 50kPa (absolute pressure).
Please let me know if I misunderstood your question.
Hope it helps!
Josh