03-11-2013 10:16 AM
Hello everyone,
I have a solar panel, controller, battery and load. I need to measure their voltages and currents.
The tensions are higher than 10V DC.
I need to use the NI 9205 to measure them? I do not know if a resistive divider will work?
Anyone have any suggestions?
thank you
03-11-2013 10:22 AM
In the past, we've used simple resistor dividers. More recently, we added op-amps to the circuit so that the DAQ impedence didn't mess with our signals. But the simple resistor dividers work just fine.
03-11-2013 10:36 AM
Thank-you for your response.
Other question. The resistence of this resistor divider should be high? To avoid current leaking?
Thank-you
03-11-2013 10:49 AM
We targeted for around 1M total resistance through the divider. So a divide by 10 would have a 900k and a 100k.