tstrowd
Dec 9 2003, 12:42 AM
I'm sure one of you out has been through this before.
I have a 1746-NIOV analog I/O module(10vdc to 0: -32768 to 32768) with an LM235 Ambient sensor -40 to 125 C
+5vdc power source
The problem i'm trying to figure out is how i can scale the input from the sensor to degrees F when the power supply voltage is constantly increasing and decreasing.
Example: 5.205994 to 5.197754
(Using :10V / 32768 * Input Value)
Is there an easy way to do this?
MarkB
Dec 9 2003, 07:51 AM
The power supply should be just powering the temperature probe and should have no effect on the reading. Most power supplies have a natural flucuation and as long as it stays within the range, it will not affect your probe. What you need to do is take the 0 to 10V out of the probe and feed that to the card (Ex: I:0.0). Use a SCP instruction and set the input min to 0, the input max to 32767. The scaled min to -40 and the scaled max to 125.
chuckm
Dec 9 2003, 08:08 AM
Oops. Convert the -40 and 125 to F and use those number in scaled min and scaled max.
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