Hello,

I'm a very satisfied user of owfs for temperature measurements. Yet, I would
need now to read voltages and DC currents (1-15A range). For the later I got a
DS2438 and a Devicecraft hall-effect sensor. The resulting ~1A@12V sensitivity
would be satisfactory for me.

So, I have attached the DS2438, and the hall sensor to it. I have checked and
the sensor delivers the expected 0.01V offset when 0.5A flows. I have got also
the folder for the 26.x device shown in my Ubuntu 10.04 machine when owfs is
executed.

Now I'm totally lost as a noob. I expected this would be simple like for the
temp sensors, just to read files via "cat". But this seems to be more tricky,
and after a lot of searching I still did not find any step-by-step guide how to
get VAD measurements.

I would appreciate any information directing me to the desired result. I'm very
excited if this will work out.

Many thanks,

lapa

PS: Just for the sake of record: for measuring 12V DC currents I used a
dismantled car fuse, and a DS18S20 pushed onto the "hot wire" part so far. In a
rather permanent temperature environment this showed an around 0.5A resolution.
Of course the offsets have a delay and a heat up-cool & down curve, but the
integral fits and the offsets can be calibrated if necessary. Now I would try
the real thing.


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