Voltage Doubler

I've run into a bit of a snag on a project at work. In trying to fit a torque sensor to our product, I will need to up the input voltage from 4.9VDC to 9-12VDC at 48-88mA.

To complicate matters further, I have a very small space to work with.

Since time is of the essence, I am open to ANY suggestions.

0 corbin.sl over 13 years ago

You could make a voltage doubler with just a few capacitors and diodes. Shouldnt take up much space. Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltage_doubler
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0 Catwell over 13 years ago

Brandon,

What type of signal is coming our of your sensor?

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0 Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to Catwell

The output is rated at 205.85mV/N.m
Force and torque sensors typically have outputs rated in mV/V.

We actually use this torque sensor with another one of our products. I am fairly certain I was able to isolate the voltage doubler and voltage divider circuits from the original application and adapted it to this new application. I won't know until it goes for calibration. Its getting pretty tough to trace out a circuit without a schematic these days.
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