Mike,

On the subject of schematics, perhaps you'll find this page informative:

http://www.tinyos.net/scoop/special/hardware/#telos

Cheers,

Rob

On 1/26/06, Michael Schippling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It sounds like there is something else already connected to the ADC input.
> The bare input impedance should be in the K's of ohms so your 10K ladder
> should be reasonably accurate.
>
> Is this one of those devices that has an onboard sensor that gets switched
> on internally somehow? Have a look at all the code you are using and see
> if it's expecting some other signal...or try some other ADC inputs.
>
> I don't know nuthin about the telos, including where to find the schematic
> and actual working code, so that's about all I can say.
> MS
>
>
> Roger Fuerst wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am doing a project with two other people at Portland State University
> > using telosb and tmote Sky motes.  We are trying to take a temperature
> > reading using a thermistor using an ADC channel on the external sensor
> > ports.  To test an analog input we hooked up a voltage divider from Vcc
> > to ground (on the 10 pin expansion slot pins 1 and 9 respectively) using
> > 10k resistors.  We had 6 separate measuring points: 3V, 2.4V, 1.8V,
> > 1.2V, 0.6V and ground as measured with a voltmeter.  When we hooked up
> > the ADC port input at Vcc we got a reading FFF hex with we took to
> > mean 100%.  At the 2.4V node we got 17 hex which is almost a zero
> > reading.  The remaining readings went down from there.  We then tried
> > reducing the resistor values, and when the overall resistor series value
> > is about 200 ohms, we got reasonable conversion results.  We were
> > surprised at the sensitivity to resistance.  Does this make any sense?
> > Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Roger Fuerst
> >
> >
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