Folks
Just a quick question on best practices. I'm designing a simple hall effect sensor based circuit as shown below.
The output requires a pull-up resistor and I'm also adding a LED to indicate when the sensor is triggered.
The circuit got me thinking, is the 10K pull-up resistor redundant as the LED circuit is carrying out the same function?
It's more a just-wondering-keen-to-learn thing, obviously removing a single resistor from the BOM isn't a big issue but I'd be interested to know if there are any good reasons not to use the indicator circuit as the pull-up as well?
thanks
Tommy
Yes, in that circuit the pullup resistor is redundant.
It is required if the output goes instead to a digital input with no pullup.
jremington:
It is required if the output goes instead to a digital input with no pullup.
I'm not sure I understand that last statement?
Surely a pull-up resistor is redundant in any situation where the digital input has a pull-up resistor enabled (setting aside arguments about the relative strenghts of integrated pull-up resistors)?
The pull up resistor is a requirement, whether it is part of the circuit that you show, or part of the circuit that it is connected to.
If the output is On/Off the 10K is optional.
If the output is analog, I recommend using the 10K as the LED is essentially open circuit until conduction occurs, but this could be argued otherwise.
Adding a parallel 10K resistor costs little and consumes little current.
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If the sensor has an open collector or drain output, a connection from the output to Vcc via a resistor or other circuitry is absolutely required to determine the sensor state.
Which sensor do you have?
