Applied
Sensors Chapter 5 Wire and
Fire Procedure
- Build the 555 timer circuit shown on page 128
- Wire the conductance probes between pins
2
and 3 of the 555
timer chip
- Run test555.bs2 program
- Get results of cnt value
- Do the math to get the duration value (P132)
- Run the calibrate555.bs2 program with new
duration value (P133)
- Test 1 - You should see 100E-7 and 100000
(100K) in debug
- Fine Tune the duration value (if needed)
- Test 2 - Put another
100K resisor in
parallel (Debug results should be approx 1/2)
- Conduct your
experiment using conductance results from a modified calibrate555.bs2
program