[time-nuts] Slightly OT: inexpensive USB analog-digital converter?

Didier Juges didier at cox.net
Fri Jan 18 06:36:24 EST 2008


I forgot the link:
 
http://www.linear.com/ad/current_sense.jsp

Didier KO4BB

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> [mailto:time-nuts-bounces at febo.com] On Behalf Of Hal Murray
> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 3:55 AM
> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement
> Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Slightly OT: inexpensive USB 
> analog-digital converter?
> 
> 
> > (My goal is to add digital voltage and current monitoring to some 
> > older bench power supplies.)
> 
> Measuring voltage is simple.  If the input range is too big, 
> you need a few resistors.  If it's small, you lose a few bits 
> from the top of the A/D.  Add an op-amp if you need them.
> 
> Measuring current gets tricky.
> 
> There are several chips designed for measuring current on 48V 
> busses.  I think they are just an instrumentation amplifier 
> with big enough resistors on the front end so that the common 
> range goes up to 48V.
> 
> Alternatively, if the supply is floating, you can put the 
> sense resistor in the ground lead, but you still need a good 
> amplifier to make the signal big enough for an ADC.
> 
> 
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