bryan1
Well-Known Member
G'day Guy's,
I'm on designing up a circuit for that pic32 module I have here and decided on using a voltage divider to measure the battery voltage. I put the AAA rechargeable pack on my smart charger and found the max charging voltage was 8 volts.
So went up to my shed and played around with some resistors to form the voltage divider. Measured the resistance with my fluke 865 DMM 6.806K - 14.873K works out to 2.185:1 using maths right.......
First I used a breadboard and got totally different results
14.8K - 6.8K is a 2.176 ratio used a single digit for resistance measurement
5.7 to 1.815 = 3.14:1
9 to 2.840 = 3.17:1
11.2 to 3.523 = 3.18:1
14.3 to 4.521 = 3.16:1
though how in the hell can the ratio be one full digit out so decided to solder up the resistors and do some measurements freestyle.
Resistors measured again with the fluke to 3 decimal places
6.806K and 14.873K works out to 2.185:1 on paper
14.40 input to 4.470 output = 3.220:1
13.33 input to 4.141 output = 3.219:1
10.96 input to 3.406 output = 3.217:1
9.64 input to 2.994 output = 3.219:1
7.74 input to 2.404 output = 3.219:1
4.14 input to 1.286 output = 3.219:1
2.80 input to 0.870 output = 3.219:1
So the breadboard wasn't the culprit so what doing maths on paper and real life tests show something totally different......
Got me totally confused now.....
Regards Bryan
I'm on designing up a circuit for that pic32 module I have here and decided on using a voltage divider to measure the battery voltage. I put the AAA rechargeable pack on my smart charger and found the max charging voltage was 8 volts.
So went up to my shed and played around with some resistors to form the voltage divider. Measured the resistance with my fluke 865 DMM 6.806K - 14.873K works out to 2.185:1 using maths right.......
First I used a breadboard and got totally different results
14.8K - 6.8K is a 2.176 ratio used a single digit for resistance measurement
5.7 to 1.815 = 3.14:1
9 to 2.840 = 3.17:1
11.2 to 3.523 = 3.18:1
14.3 to 4.521 = 3.16:1
though how in the hell can the ratio be one full digit out so decided to solder up the resistors and do some measurements freestyle.
Resistors measured again with the fluke to 3 decimal places
6.806K and 14.873K works out to 2.185:1 on paper
14.40 input to 4.470 output = 3.220:1
13.33 input to 4.141 output = 3.219:1
10.96 input to 3.406 output = 3.217:1
9.64 input to 2.994 output = 3.219:1
7.74 input to 2.404 output = 3.219:1
4.14 input to 1.286 output = 3.219:1
2.80 input to 0.870 output = 3.219:1
So the breadboard wasn't the culprit so what doing maths on paper and real life tests show something totally different......
Got me totally confused now.....
Regards Bryan