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bbrally
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Resistance readings.

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I've been reading in the resistance values and have noticed that they are all clamped (if that's the right terminology) to a certain value. In the graph below you can see that resistance jumps from one specific value to another, there's no in between.
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Is this just the resolution of the A/D converter or are they being intentionally "rounded" to these values? I was expecting more resolution from the values as each jump in resistance is also a jump in temperature.
If they are being intentionally rounded, is there any possibility of accessing the raw resistances?
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Re: Resistance readings.

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Is your Y axis ohms/10? If so then the variance looks to be 20 ohms, which is not too bad and likely the resolution of the A/D. A 16 bit AD at a 100 kOhm range would vield a resolution of 1.5 ohms.

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Re: Resistance readings.

Post by brahn »

The BCS uses a 10 bit ADC. I think what you're seeing is a result of the resolution of the ADC.

We don't do any rounding in software, although we do a running average / oversample to smooth out temperature fluctuations.
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