normally your agnd will be connected to your dgnd in one place so both
are at the same potential.


On 12/18/2014 5:45 PM, Chad Baker wrote:
> Analog or digital ground? The two are different.
> The digital ground will appear to float since the two are not connected.
> AGND is at P9-34, whereas GND is P9-1, P9-2, P9-43->46 and P8-1, P8-2.
>
> Chad
>
> On 12/18/2014 11:44 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying use the Beaglebone Black to monitor a smoke detector
>> activation. I have two wires coming from the smoke detector, ground
>> and positive lead. The voltage on the wires will go to 0.6v when the
>> detector is activated. I have the ground connected to the P9 header
>> GNDA_ADC and the positive wire from the detector going to AIN6. When
>> monitoring the base values of AIN6 without the detector being
>> activated I get a wide range of values. Example output below...
>>
>>  pin AIN6 value is 2
>> pin AIN6 value is 105
>> pin AIN6 value is 0
>> pin AIN6 value is 0
>> pin AIN6 value is 687
>> pin AIN6 value is 195
>> pin AIN6 value is 29
>> pin AIN6 value is 1799
>> pin AIN6 value is 182
>> pin AIN6 value is 0
>>
>> When the detector is activated the AIN6 value will just be above
>> 1000. However the random base values frequently exceed 1000 as well
>> resulting in a lot of false positive activations.
>>
>> My questions..
>>
>> 1. Why is there so much variance in the base AIN values when no
>> voltage is being applied? Should it not be near or at zero?
>> 2. What can I do to remedy this so I can get consistently low
>> baseline AIN values so I do not generate false positive activations?
>>
>> Please remember - newbie question with very basic knowledge of
>> electronics.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
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