i’m using an MQ3 sensor. I have the formula shown down to calculate the sensor value.
My question is how to use it to calculate a sensor response.
I try this code but it was not a success. Can you help me ???
Question : to use my formula, i will have some values calculated using the same sensor for differents solutions. The array obtained was :
float pts [4] [2] = {
{
C1,R1 }
, {
C2,R2 }
, {
C3,R3 }
, {
C4,R4 }
,{
};
The calibartion formula : Log(C2 / C1) Log (R / R1) = Log (R2 / R1) Log (X / C1).
C2,C1,R1,R2 and R are known. R is the resistance calculated from the sensor with AnalogRead (A0).
I’m looking for a code which can depending of the value of R to fix the write interval for work :
Example : if R is between R2 et R3 the formula will be used using C2,R2 et C3,R3
than the result will be in this fonction:
for (int nn=0; nn<3; nn++) {
if (R >= pts[nn][1] && R <= pts[nn+1][1]) {
result = (log((pts[nn+1][0]/pts[nn][0])*log (R/pts[nn][1])+log(pts[0][nn+1]/pts[0][nn])*log pts[nn][0])/log (pts[nn+1][1]/pts[nn][0]));
Serial.print(" C =");
Serial.print(" ");
}
else
{
Serial.println ("Out of Limites ");
Serial.print (" ");
}
el_supremo:
Where did you get that calibration formula from? It is unnecessarily complicated.
It is the same as:
C2 * R = R2 * X
I can’t find any reference to such a Byzantine calibration formula in the sensor literature or the data sheets, and it doesn’t make much sense, even as a randomly chosen equation to linearize a complicated dependence. What would X be, having units of capacitance? Unknown in an RC impedance bridge?
My math skills are a bit rusty but just for fun I tried to prove Pete’s equality and can’t. So I turned to my crutch (Mathematica) and assuming that the derived equality is correct, plugged it back into the original equation and solved for R. That yielded R=R2, which also doesn’t give much of a clue.
Pete: would you care to give any hints as to where I went wrong?
I would be curious to see what the circuit is and understand why C1 and R1 are irrelevant.
i see you do many things for my request i will explain to you :
the sensor response is not linear, but it seems like a power fonction : that’s is the response will be linear if we apply the log function.
R1… Rn was the response of the sensor
C1…Cn was the concentration of different and know solution
R is the unknow solution resistance
C is the concentration which i’m looking for.
In my code i have a funtion of calibration where i put the different value of my known Resistance and concentration.
i have too a function using the calibration formula :
Log(C2 / C1) Log (R / R1) = Log (R2 / R1) Log (X / C1). In this formula just X is the unknow concentration.
According to that the sensor’s response is supposed Linear and i use this formula for formula.
Not at all what I had in mind! It would have helped if you had posted that sheet first, as the operation is just linear interpolation on a log-log plot. You have 5 measured quantities so just solve for X:
Pete: would you care to give any hints as to where I went wrong?
My (elementary) mistake. I had raised both sides to the power of ten to get rid of the logs but in one subsequent step I made the mistake of using 10^(ab) => 10^a * 10^b which isn’t correct. It should be 10^(ab) = (10^a)^b which doesn’t help reduce the equation further.
good reply . But my need is a code to use the log-log interpolation formula and where R is between R1 and R2 ? how i can chose the right interval ?????
I don't understand. It doesn't matter if R is between R1 and R2, or not. You have two calibration points that determine the straight line form of the response, and that is what is being used to estimate X from R.
it's wrirght that R is between R1 and R2 but it can be between R2 and R3 or R3 and R4. i'm going to make an online sensor and after determination of R 1..R4 the code must select the interval of calculation depending of the value of R.
