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Hi - I have built a pH measuring device using the LMP91200 & an ADC161s646. I have the LMP91200 eval kit working with the TI PC-based demo program & so I know that my pH & temperature sensors are giving voltages that agree with a old Hanna pH meter. Can you please help me to filter or stabilise my raw temperature samples & figure out why my raw pH readings are nonsense (all 1's) when the AFE is in the signal path?
I got some sensible results by converting the average voltages obtained from the LMP91200 program back into pH, using the equations in TI’s SNAS571, run on the maths FPU on my target’s processor (an ARM Cortex M4). The voltage from the pH probe converted to pH 10.12 when the probe was in freshly opened (but 4 year old) pH 10 reference solution. An COTS pH meter using the same sensor verified this to be accurate to within 0.1pH.
This is some sample output taken with a 100 Ohm PT100 temperature probe, at ~20C, and a Hanna pH probe in pH10 buffer solution:
phEcho
1. av 8 T-readings at RCAL for 1ma at PGA10: 562,151,299,138,553,8191,601,8161, (quite a lot of outliers here – how long before it settles?) There's a 10 uSecs delay between samples.
2. av T-readings at RCAL for 2ma at PGA5: 1640,1638,1638,1636,1637,1641,1640,1641,
3. av 8 T-readings but with the RTD: 1635,1646,1646,1642,1638,1643,1646,1645,
4. av 2048 pH readings: 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The 4 averages are:
2332 1638 1642 4095
There’s something wrong with the raw pH reading, which doesn’t show up when I bypass the AFE & feed the ADC from a pot fed with Vref:
EchopHtoConsole(): rawpH (sum_adc_data4) = 1122, pH -3134.98, -0.23oC
1. av 8 T-readings at RCAL for 1ma at PGA10: 1120,1123,1124,1117,1123,1122,1124,1124, (note how stable these are by comparison!)
2. av T-readings at RCAL for 2ma at PGA5: 1125,1133,1122,1122,1124,1124,1125,1122,
3. av 8 T-readings but with the RTD: 1114,1113,1121,1121,1121,1127,1120,1124,
4. av 2048 pH readings: 1125,1125,1122,1119,…
The ADC is a 14 bit output ADC161s646 with a 2’s complement output, i.e. it saturates at 16383 (-8192..+8191), so 4095 shouldn’t be significant. I am seeing similar behavior with the LMP91200 eval board when its driven by my micro over 2 separate SPI channels, one each for the AFE & the ADC. The eval board works perfectly with the TI LMP91200 program, via a SPIO-4 Signal path board (a USB to SPI interface, with an ARM & an FPGA).
So in summary,
How long a delay should I leave between pH samples (this isn’t mentioned in SNAS571)?
and
what is the effect on the pH calc equation if I set VCM to anything other than ½ Vref?
