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#139834 - How to measure an AC voltage? Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Sulaiman, are you asking how to measure the voltage of an AC signal? If your AC signal is +/-2V, you need to move this signal into the range of 0-5V for the adc0804. You can level shift with an op-amp, or use resistors to bias the adc0804 input to half VCC (2.5v) and use a capacitor to AC couple the AC signal. This gets you AC signal in the range of 0-5V. Then, how do you measure this voltage? Since it is AC, you need to know the frequency - lets assume 50Hz. You need to sample this signal for a number of times per AC period. You can test for the highest reading which is the peak voltage or you can calculate the RMS of the sampled values to give a true RMS value. To calculate this you square each sample and calculate the sum of all samples , divide by the number of samples then take the square root of this. The RMS value is what you're left with. RMS (root of the mean squares). This should be a bit of a challenge in assembler! |
Topic | Author | Date |
ADC0804 | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
you can't | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
I think what he means is ... | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
More detail, please. | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
How to measure an AC voltage? | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Measuring Ac | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
Design Idea on the Subject | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
More detail | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
an exercise for the student![]() | 01/01/70 00:00 |