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kusspuss

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recently i bought this strain guage where vender said it is 4bridge, i am not sure how to connect this with power suppl so that this strain gauge operate safe the resistance of bridge is 120ohm strain gauge.
please need guide thank you.
 

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danadak

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Its a full bridge strain gauge, so power goes to Red and Black,
Green and White to A/D or IA input.

The lower R valued ones may need a R in series with power connection
to limit current, which creates a CM Voltage so A/D has to be differential
input, or use IA. Does information describe current limit allowed, max ?


Regards, Dana.
 

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Its a full bridge strain gauge, so power goes to Red and Black,
Green and White to A/D or IA input.

The lower R valued ones may need a R in series with power connection
to limit current, which creates a CM Voltage so A/D has to be differential
input, or use IA. Does information describe current limit allowed, max ?


Regards, Dana.
yes i have AD620 module too amplify it , the vender told me 25mA.how much safe power supply should give and how can i connect this with breadboard

Edit: do i need voltage divider , i have voltage regular 3-24V DC

thankyou very much
 
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What A/D are you going to use to read the output of AD620 ?
In other words what is the desired output range you want out
of the AD620 ?

Will you be feeding the AD620 output to an A/D, if so whats is
its input range allowed ?



Regards, Dana.
 

kusspuss

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What A/D are you going to use to read the output of AD620 ?
In other words what is the desired output range you want out
of the AD620 ?

Will you be feeding the AD620 output to an A/D, if so whats is
its input range allowed ?



Regards, Dana.
the mv voltage from AD620will be feed into Arduino , the voltage allowed output from AD620 is 9V .
 

danadak

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Tha allowed Arduino input range is 0 - Vcc, Vcc is either 3.3 or 5V.

So you cannot overdrive the input. Circuits you can use to accomplish this :


The Ad620 has to be operated at higher V than Arduino Vcc if you want maximum range, becuse its limited,
not rail to rail :

1693064567700.png



Regards, Dana.
 

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Tha allowed Arduino input range is 0 - Vcc, Vcc is either 3.3 or 5V.

So you cannot overdrive the input. Circuits you can use to accomplish this :


The Ad620 has to be operated at higher V than Arduino Vcc if you want maximum range, becuse its limited,
not rail to rail :

View attachment 60410



Regards, Dana.
if i supply 3-5 V to AD620 , will it will be enough ? secondly i want to know that how can i suppl power to 4 strain gauge full bridge if wheatstone bridge not required
 

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Hello,

The AD620 works from +/- 2.3 AKA 4.6 Volts;
AD620_power.png
This is the gauge circuit from the datasheet:
AD620_pressure_gauge.png
Bertus
 

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danadak

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The gauge circuit is driving the ground, in this case, of the Arduino which would
pose additional problems interfacing to it.

You have a bridge, connected to Vcc, lets say 5V. Its CM V is 2.5V. Its deviation
you have to compute, but for this example, when bridge unbalanced ranges
+/- 100 mV. So its output ranges from 2.6V to 2.4V.

Your arduino, says its running off 5V, the A/D input range is 0 - 5V.

So you have to translate 2.4V to 2.6 V to 0 V to 5.0 V. So start with G needed.
G = 5V / .2V = 25. So that gives you the slope of Vout / Vin.

Now you have to offset that by the CM voltage of 2.5 V so you get 0 - 5 V.
The easy way is to have a - supply as well on AD620 and use a OpAmp
differential circuit to subtract out the offset. A tool you can play with :


A design method for offset OpAmp is :


Of course you dont have to use the entire range of Arduino A/D, you can
trade that off for other considerations.

For negative supply you can use PWM output of Arduino and this :


1693069608765.png

Because the AD620 has excellent PSRR that should be OK, but doing an error buget or
sim always prudent.



Regards, Dana.
 
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Hello,

The 10 Volts limit is set by the ICL7660.
It could be lower as 3.5 Volts, The LM358 works from +/- 1.5 Volts, The AD620 from +/- 2.3 Volts.
The board should be able to handle 2.3 to 10 Volts.

Bertus
 

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danadak

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1693071055709.png

Sim for -V generator, you will have to juggle values to get AD620 output
swing down to 0V (to maximize Arduino A/D input range). Also use Schottky
diodes versus the Si I used, to get more - V. Basically strive for
~ 2V so that AD620 can swing to ground. Note using Schottky's versus IN914
should get closer to -2V needed.

I ran Arduino PWM at 1 Khz.....to drive this neg V generator.



Regards, Dana.
 
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kusspuss

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Hello,

The 10 Volts limit is set by the ICL7660.
It could be lower as 3.5 Volts, The LM358 works from +/- 1.5 Volts, The AD620 from +/- 2.3 Volts.
The board should be able to handle 2.3 to 10 Volts.

Bertus
for this Fully strain gauge bridge how can i power it up , there are four terminals , two terminal S+ and S- go to AD620 signal + and signal -
 

kusspuss

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The gauge circuit is driving the ground, in this case, of the Arduino which would
pose additional problems interfacing to it.

You have a bridge, connected to Vcc, lets say 5V. Its CM V is 2.5V. Its deviation
you have to compute, but for this example, when bridge unbalanced ranges
+/- 100 mV. So its output ranges from 2.6V to 2.4V.

Your arduino, says its running off 5V, the A/D input range is 0 - 5V.

So you have to translate 2.4V to 2.6 V to 0 V to 5.0 V. So start with G needed.
G = 5V / .2V = 25. So that gives you the slope of Vout / Vin.

Now you have to offset that by the CM voltage of 2.5 V so you get 0 - 5 V.
The easy way is to have a - supply as well on AD620 and use a OpAmp
differential circuit to subtract out the offset. A tool you can play with :


A design method for offset OpAmp is :


Of course you dont have to use the entire range of Arduino A/D, you can
trade that off for other considerations.

For negative supply you can use PWM output of Arduino and this :


View attachment 60416

Because the AD620 has excellent PSRR that should be OK, but doing an error buget or
sim always prudent.



Regards, Dana.
i have question that the Module i have , do i need to make another OP and connect AD620 MOdule with it ?
 

bertus

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Hello,

I have written the boards input names on your sensor picture:
SG1_comment.jpg

Do you have a datasheet of the gauge?
That way we can see the maximum exiting voltage of the gauge.

Bertus
 

kusspuss

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Hello,

I have written the boards input names on your sensor picture:
View attachment 60422

Do you have a datasheet of the gauge?
That way we can see the maximum exiting voltage of the gauge.

Bertus
the company said that , the working current during static measurement is about 25mA , unfortunately could not find datasheet
 
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