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  • Author Author: Robert Peter Oakes
  • Date Created: 5 Aug 2014 4:16 AM Date Created
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Sense BIG things with your Launchpad or Arduino, OPTO Isolated inputs.

Robert Peter Oakes
Robert Peter Oakes
5 Aug 2014

back to the base project The Electronic Referee

 

OK, so you have done al the samples, used buttons on a breadboard etc. etc. Now you want to interface stuff from the real world into your microcontroller

 

If you have not watched the previous video, then please do for how to drive BIG loads from you microcontroller using OPTO Isolators. Drive BIG things with added safety. OPTO Isolators

 

The real world is an evil place for microcontrollers, loads of EMF to mess with you and blow input circuitry, so we need a way to safely hook up a sensor that is out in the garden, on the roof or some place at the end of a long wire

 

An OPTO Isolator is what you need, a few simple and in expensive parts and your up and running, My example is what I used to interface my OMRON industrial line break sensors to a TI launch pad (The ONRON runs at 24V) for my Electronic Referee project (Find it here:

 

here is how:

 

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This is the final circuit used for the Electronic Referee

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This is a link to the OPTO Isolator I used http://www.vishay.com/docs/83621/ild55.pdf

and this to the P Channel FET:  http://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Toshiba%20PDFs/TPC8114.pdf

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    Robert Peter Oakes over 10 years ago in reply to mcb1

    Thanks

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    mcb1 over 10 years ago

    Well done.

    Highly necessary for isolation and under-utilised IMO.

     

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