I am trying to read the voltage of a battery which i am using to power my toy car , battery is 13.6V so i am converting it down to 5v using buck converter and then powering the arduino and other stuff (total 200mA current, when motors not powered).
i have a voltage divider at the battery which is Read by an analog Pin . (shown in the figure)
ADCSRA = bit (ADEN);
ADCSRA|=B00000111; // Prescaler of 128 , higest time for coversion to increase accuracy and keep r value high
ADMUX =B01000011; // i have changed reference from 11, 01
bitSet (ADCSRA, ADSC); // start a conversion
while (bit_is_set(ADCSRA, ADSC)){ }
v_lifepo4=ADC;
v_lifepo4=v_lifepo4*0.0245136;
what i have tried.
reducing the value of the voltage divider resistors
increasing the time of reading the voltage
using internal 1.1V as reference voltage
Note:- i am giving the input at 5V insted of Vin
But i don't get the correct voltage
Problems:-
1.7805 does not give 5V output (its 4.94V when connect to 13.6V at input side).
2. its the main reason i think , after buck converter voltage is 4.96V , but at the arduino input voltage drops to 4.75V. There is only a jumper wire in between.
but for a 0.2V voltage Drop at 0.2A current the resistance of the wire should be 1 ohm.
Can the resistance of a jumper wire be 1 Ohm or 0.7 ohm ?? Or am i doing something wrong ? (The jumpers are not of good quality)
What you have drawn will not read the battery right the voltage divider only goes to .680 volts
You need to make divider that reads I would use 15 volts top and 5 at output.
10 k and 5 resistor
when you charge the battery it be like 14 volts something close to it.
The code you posted is not needed. It's not going to be better then the adc read does.
i know it goes only upto 0.66 V = 2.2/49.2 *14.4( battery max voltage) , the voltage divider is correct , i am using the internal 1.1 V reference voltage for the ADC . ( it is different in the code , i have mentioned it there also ).
before this i was using a different voltage divider for the 5v reference .
You losing about half of the adc range plus a math nightmare
can you explain ...
i know that i am losing half the adc range , its fine as i don't need very high precision and i and few resistors to make the divider.
yes it is reading higher than desired and it is in the range 14.8V to 15.1V .
I was trying to figure how you was thinking that 47k and 2.2 would give you a reading that of your battery voltage seeing it can only output 648 mV to the adc pin