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Jun 23, 2015 at 3:24 comment added Russell McMahon Use a 2nd opamp section to make a unity gain buffer (OA out to OA-) use this to buffer a pot that you adjust to 1V (Pot feed OA+,OA out to V1. ) || Make One of the R3's adjustable using a bigger value pot than R3 fixed. eg if R3 = 10K make pot say 15K so you can adjust it either side of 10k slightly. This is used to make gain of V1 & V2 inputs track. || Overall accuracy is limited by balance of resistors so use 1% or better still 0.1%. (may not need pot above if R's are matched well enough). IF you want to avoid having to supply matched R's buy an "instrumentation amplifier" IC.
Jun 22, 2015 at 13:00 comment added Majenko 0-4v is 1-5v with 1v subtracted as the answer says. V2 is your signal at 1-5v, v1 is 1v reference voltage. V1 is subtracted from V2 (so 1-5 becomes 0-4) and then amplified by R3/R1 to make 0-4 into 0-5.
Jun 22, 2015 at 11:55 vote accept KoenR
Jun 22, 2015 at 11:54 comment added KoenR I like the differntial amplifier answer. But, what are V1 and V2? Why are you talking about 0-4 to 0-5 when I have a 1-5? Thanks in advance!
Jun 22, 2015 at 10:44 history answered Joris Groosman CC BY-SA 3.0