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Team,
My customer has the following question:
I believe you guys took over burr brown INA331. I need help with it. I see in datasheet page 9 the gain is set by R1 and R2 to get desired gain (in my case 34.8k for R2 and 4.99k for R1 to get a gain of 40). I see it in the pic on page 9 that REF pin where R1 is connected is left open. What happen if I have a ground connected there?
I’m seeing failure around this circuit so I’m wondering if grounding this pin is ok because they had this designed with this pin grounded and I’d like to know if it’s ok.
I wrote equation for three amplifiers and came out as a gain of 40 with REF pin grounded and with 34.8k and 4.99k. SO, I think we are ok there unless your application engineer suggests that is not advisable to use with REF pin grounded.
Please forward this to your engineer anyway. I thought I share it with what I found out after crunching the equations..
Regards,
Aaron