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Dear Sirs,
I'm working on a four wired PT100 circuit which main goal is measure between -50, + 50 range with an stable resolution of 0,01C after a proper calibration.
PT100 will be in a circulating liquid bath so no self heating effect I guess.
I read all the forum, datasheet and application notes like
But a little confused about Gain, Excitation Current and Reference Resistor.
Please look my schematic and correct me if I'm wrong about following comments:
Suggested Reference voltage is mid supply in my case its 2,5V(AVDD=5VDC)
If I use 3,3kohm reference resistor(for 2.5V reference IEXC will be 0.75mA) For this project PT100 will be around 120 ohm for 50C.
Max PT100 voltage will be around 90mV. So Max gain at this point is 2,5/90m=27,78 not even 32!
Basically we need higher gain for better noise performance.
With a higher reference resistor like 10kohm. Can it help us? For 2.5V reference voltage IEXC is 0.25mA.
Max PT100 voltage will be around 30mV so Gain can be 64.
With higher reference resistor also effects low pass filter values. Do you think it is applicaple? Because filter resistor values goes high.
Can we extend reference voltage higher than 2.5V instead of mid suplly like 3-3.5V? Does it help? Of course values should meet common mode input range
AVSS + 0.1 V + (VRTD MAX · Gain) / 2 ≤ VCM ≤ AVDD – 0.1 V – (VRTD MAX · Gain) / 2
Most of te examples uses 20SPS data rate(for 50/60Hz rejection) and it gives 250Hz frequency at 14.8Hz(several times more)
If we dont mind about conversion time and for a better performance if we use 5 or 10 SPS rates what will be frequencies at this values-more or less?
Could you evaluate our situation and suggest for a precise measuring?
Also I will take care following point
-Iexc current should be meet with compliance voltage
-Keep the analog devices close to ADCs pins
-Do not cross the digital lines and analog ones
-Leave unused analog pins floating
-Do not float unused digital pins
-Use LDO supplies
-Temp coeff of reference resistor shoul be low as 2ppm/C or better
-Inlet and reference filetrs should be well matched
-AGround and DGround should be equal
Best Regards.
Kemal