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Re: [AVR-Chat] Using the ADC to measure the battery supply?

2007-06-20 by David VanHorn

On 6/19/07, Darren Worley <darren@worley.org.au> wrote:
> Finally, someone read the actual task, and come back to reality.
> It's great to see discussion on such topics, but sadly, us techies can get
> so tied up in the design intricacies at times, we really need to keep
> focused on the end goal and stay in perspective. Albeit, its fun at times to
> get sidetracked ;)

Before you think that the offset current is a sidetrack, I suggest you
look at the magnitude of that current, against the megohm-range values
of resistors that were suggested, and the real active range of a
battery measurement done that way, (in bits)then tell me that it's
irrelevant.

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