Problem with analogRead()

[Hassanul 0]

Hello,

 

I have the MSP-EXP430FR5969 Wolverine Launchpad (Rev 1.6) and I'm trying to read the voltage output of a LM35 temperature sensor. I went on and used adafruit's code and adapted it to the launchpad. However, I'm not getting the correct voltage values. I verified the sensor is working as I used a multimeter to measure the voltage and it is working.

 

Here's a snippet of the code

 

static uint8_t analogInPin = A7 ;

int sensorValue = 0;       

int voltage = 0;        

int temp = 0;

 

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sensorValue = analogRead(analogInPin);

voltage=sensorValue*(3600/1023.0);

  temp=(voltage-500)/10.0;

  // print the results to the serial monitor:

  Serial.print("Voltage = " );                       

  Serial.print(voltage);

  Serial.print("mV \t"); 

   

  Serial.print("Temp = ");  

  Serial.print(temp);

  Serial.print("C \n"); 

 

 

All I'm getting in the serial monitor is 929mV 41 C , but the room temperature isn't 41C and the multimeter shows around 281.7mV

I even tried changing pins and it still doesn't work. Did I just fry the board?

 

Thanks a lot

[spirilis 1,265]

Are you sure adafruit's directions (and formula) are accurate for the LaunchPad? Keep in mind the Wolverine's max ADC voltage is 3.3V (Vcc) and it's a 12-bit ADC if I'm not mistaken. The fact that other pins report the same results makes me skeptical of the formula.

[spirilis 1,265]

Also, TI is replacing rev 1.6 Wolverine LaunchPads with the new rev 2.0 for free, search around about that

[Hassanul 0]

Are you sure adafruit's directions (and formula) are accurate for the LaunchPad? Keep in mind the Wolverine's max ADC voltage is 3.3V (Vcc) and it's a 12-bit ADC if I'm not mistaken. The fact that other pins report the same results makes me skeptical of the formula.

I didn't know that the wolverine has a 12-bit ADC. I just read the specifications and indeed you're right - its 12-bit. Now I got it to work perfectly.. Thanks!!

[Hassanul 0]

Also, TI is replacing rev 1.6 Wolverine LaunchPads with the new rev 2.0 for free, search around about that

Yeah I got an email about that... Can't wait to get my hands on it!! Anyway I just found out that my board isn't fried, although at one time I accidentally splashed some water onto the eZ-FET while it was connected to the computer

[spirilis 1,265]

Yeah I got an email about that... Can't wait to get my hands on it!! Anyway I just found out that my board isn't fried, although at one time I accidentally splashed some water onto the eZ-FET while it was connected to the computer

Nice - PS, have you played around with Capacitive Touch sensing and water levels?  I did a little experiment last week with a cup of water, a GND wire and pin wire and using the Wolverine's captouch... Had some interesting results.  I need to make a more durable test fixture to evaluate this properly but it does seem that the captouch hardware can be used to detect "water level" more or less, although I am curious how its calibration may drift.

[Hassanul 0]

Nice - PS, have you played around with Capacitive Touch sensing and water levels?  I did a little experiment last week with a cup of water, a GND wire and pin wire and using the Wolverine's captouch... Had some interesting results.  I need to make a more durable test fixture to evaluate this properly but it does seem that the captouch hardware can be used to detect "water level" more or less, although I am curious how its calibration may drift.

I am also experimenting with water level sensing right now... I'm making an aquaponics system that requires monitoring of water levels but I used a SRF05 Ultrasonic sensor placed on the top to detect the water level. I'm gonna try CapTouch someday.. It has a library for it right?

[spirilis 1,265]

I am also experimenting with water level sensing right now... I'm making an aquaponics system that requires monitoring of water levels but I used a SRF05 Ultrasonic sensor placed on the top to detect the water level. I'm gonna try CapTouch someday.. It has a library for it right?

There is an Energia lib for captouch, and TI has their professional C library for captouch... I can't recall if the Energia lib fully supports the Wolverine yet or not.  I was doing it all manually with C code either way.