Hi all,
I am trying to use an INA233EVM to measure the current and energy usage of a battery operated device.
I am able to read and write all registers, and from the data sheet I calculated the shut resistor value and the corresponding calibration register value for my application.
At this point I am reading reasonable voltage and current values, and I can also read values from the Power and Energy registers.
The problem is that I am not sure what scaling factors are used internally by the INA233 to compute these values in order to roll them back to Watts and Joules.
I followed the "Current Sensing Video series" and particularly the video 3.3 which shows the exact computations to do, but showing formulas that contain two constats (C and D).
For the values of these constants the video tell to refer to the specific device data sheet.
Unfortunately I coudn't find any useful data from the data sheet to convert the Power and Energy registers reading into SI units.
As an example I am reading:
Vreg=3982
Ireg=16
With the Voltage scaling of 1.25mV/digit and a Current_LSB of 15.6uA this means V=4.97V and I=250uA
With these values the actual Power should be 1243uW
Instead the Power register shows a value of 3 and sometimes 4.
Of course this is due to the internal scaling, but what factor is used?
Can anyone help?
As a side note I saw that the energy register increments on average by 3.07 per sample, so it seems to be a simple "power" accumulator without scaling (or with a scaling factor of 1).
Best Regards.
Mau.
