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On the ARDUINO MOTOR SHIELD REV3's pins 0 and 1:
"On each channel will be a voltage proportional to the measured current, which can be read as a normal analog input, through the function analogRead() on the analog input A0 and A1. For your convenience it is calibrated to be 3.3V when the channel is delivering its maximum possible current, that is 2A. "
The Arduino analogRead gives 1023 at 5V.
I wrote:
int Reading=analogRead(SensePin); float Ampere=((5/3.3)*Reading)/511.5;
1023/2=511.5
I get reasonable readings, but i don't know if they're true.
Hi Karol,
The analogRead does not measure Amps. It measures Voltage (see this article).
I'm unaware of any method to read Ampere with this.
So I had to do some reading up on this: seems the Current Sensing pin some how converts Amps to Voltage.
Since I do not have this shield available, I cannot tell you much about it.
Maybe this article is helpful?
* Note: to "scale" a value you can also use the map function, eg.:
map(analogRead(SensePin), 0, 1024, 0, 2000)
This scales the result (between 0 and 1024) to a different scale (0 to 2000).
* if you would still like to read the voltage:
The voltage would be calculated like so for a 5v microcontroller like an Arduino Uno:
float voltage= sensorValue * (5.0 / 1023.0);
For a 3.3v microcontroller this would be:
float voltage= sensorValue * (3,3 / 1023.0);
