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Some doubts about reading voltage and current with and ADC
« on: August 29, 2012, 04:37:48 pm »
Good afternoon, when dave started his PSU series, I grabed is rev B schematic, made some modifications and got some pcb's, after months I finally got some time for this project, and the voltage measurements are a bit off, like, the adc says its 1.00v, and the scope(Rigol DS1052E) measures 1.20v, usually its always a 200mV diference, in some values its a bit smaller.
The current, well, it was suposed to be 1mA/bit, but for a 220ohm resistor at 1.00v(measured by the ADC), the current is about 9 counts, or as the expected 1mA/bit 9mA, but ohms law says it should measure 4.5mA.

The schematic is in this pdf:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30143255/power%20supply.pdf

The code to convert from the ADC readings to voltage is this:
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power.vinf = (double)((power.vinRaw*2.048f*10.98)/4095.0f);
power.voutf = (double)((power.voutRaw*2.048f*5.0f)/4095.0f);

And the voltage reference measures 2.04v on the scope.
Any thoughs on how to correct the measures, and whats is the correct calcs to get the current values?
 


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