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Re: calculating sensor resistance (Ohm's Law)
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 22:42:20 GMT
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hi Lauren,
you're quiet right,
the inside of the RCX (in touch-sensor mode) is ok, and Ohm's law is also.
So the problem lies probably in the sensor used. The cheap resistive pressure sensors are totally non-linear, more expensive sensors are full bridges and you've to use a more complex cirquit.
What sensor are you using ?
lauren klein wrote:
> I've been helping my little sister with her RCX-intensive science
> project, but we just finished all the calculations and her results seem
> screwy. Does anyone who understands RCX internals and/or Ohm's Law have
> some time to look this over and make sure I've got all everything right?
>
> This is what we've done: We first made a couple of pressure sensors;
> each one has a force sensitive resistor (FSR; same functionality as a
> pot) in series with a 1K resistor.
>
> With these sensors (one plugged into each RCX input), we were able to
> record raw values 0-1023 in the datalog. We can convert these values to
> voltages just by scaling 0-1023 to 0-5, but what I need to figure out is
> the resistance of the FSR that corresponds to each of these voltage
> values.
>
> This is an Ohm's Law question. The problem is that I do not know what
> the inside of the RCX brick looks like. With the information I could
> find on the web, I can only guess that the whole setup looks like this:
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> inside the lego -----+ my sensor
> |
> +5v 10k | 1k
> +-----/\/\/\/\/--+-- input --/\/\/\-+
> | | |
> --- +-+ |
> - |V| |
> --- +-+ |
> - | |
> | | |
> +----------------+-- input --/\{}/\-+
> ground | FSR
> | (pot)
> inside the lego -----+
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> In which case it's a series resistance and I can find the resistance of
> the FSR with the following equation:
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> V 1+pot
> --- = --------
> 5 10+1+pot
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> But the values I'm getting don't really make sense. I just wanted to
> check, is this the correct formula? And is my picture of the inside of
> the RCX correct?
>
> Thanks so much.
> Lauren
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| Stef Mientki <s.mientki@ids.kun.nl> wrote: : the inside of the RCX (in touch-sensor mode) is ok, and Ohm's law is also. I actually used temperature sensor mode, since I wanted a passive mode that wasn't just boolean. Would that have made a (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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| I've been helping my little sister with her RCX-intensive science project, but we just finished all the calculations and her results seem screwy. Does anyone who understands RCX internals and/or Ohm's Law have some time to look this over and make (...) (25 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.robotics)
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