Introduction: Arduino Shield L Meter
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Firmware:
Step 1:
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Step 2:
This is the adaptation for Arduino UNO R3 of Adrzej Janeczek project “AVT-2813” - Multimeter addition for L measurement.
Step 3: Considerations
Now we can think, how we can measure the inductance of coil…
Can we for example counting a magnetic fields lines around the coil ? – Of course NO :-) BUT… but people think and think and created indirectly methods for this… So we can connect the coil into the circuit and we can check how she work. How fast she get the saturation and de-saturation. Simple scheme first:
Step 4: Practice
On the first gate we gave rectangular signal (about 128kHZ) from R1/C1 oscillator, which is separated by 3 next other gates. Now signal going to R3/R4/R5/Lx and we have the SAW signal, which going on the next gate. From this gate signal is converted to rectangular signal, where the fill factor is proportional to coil inductance. Last gate reversing this signal phase and send signal to R6/C3 integral circuit. This circuit get the average voltage level of this rectangular signal, and this is the value of inductance where any uH is after every one 10 mV (1uH/10mV).
Finally we using Arduino as V-meter, and additionally as F-meter for adjust signal from R1/C1 to 128 kHZ. For this we have one tactile switch, which we should pressing by about 1sec. and we can see something like this and using PR1 rotation resistor (this long one):
Step 5: Diagrams - Logic Level Gate Switching
This simple way gave possibility for us how catch the coil inductance.
