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Created March 03, 2012
Last modified May 23, 2012
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Summary

A simple way to measure current in your circuit with shunt resistor. To amplify output signal I used operational amplifier.
Output voltage should go to ADC.
Optimised for 3.3V@2A and 5V@3A.


Description

I was wondering how to measure current flowing through my stepper motor. Also I needed to use collected data to adjust controls of stepper motor that's why I can't simply use ampere-meter. Out put signal should go to ADC of the control unit (probably Arduino or Discovery).

In my design mean current will be 2A and peak current 3A. For that reason I chosen Uout@2A=3.3V and Uout@3A=5V.

I have also calculated R0 and R1 values for different Rs resistors:

[table] [tr] [th]Rs[/th][th]R0[/th][th]R1[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]0.10[/td][td]13k[/td][td]820[/td] [/tr] [tr][td]0.22[/td][td]22k[/td][td]3.3k[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]0.47[/td][td]6.8k[/td][td]2.7k[/td] [/tr] [/table]


Comments

Hi,

Good idea but note that if you are running the opamp from a single supply rail, it must have an input common mode range that extends all the way to ground.

You might also like to have a look at:

:)

by signality
May 23, 2012

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