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Anonymous
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Hi, 

   

I'm trying to read some sensors[QTR-8RC - https://www.pololu.com/docs/0J13/2] and then i got on and dead end...

   

Need some advice, the sensors need a 10us pulse for charging some capacitance, and the we read the cap discharge. I generate the pulses with a PWM and i can see the waveforms on an oscilloscope and they display correctly but only if i put the pin on "Open drain, drives high" 

   

Then I try to get the cap discharge signal to a comparator to get a pulse width proportional to sensor measurement.

   

Well.. after days of reading, i think i need another "pin driving" so i can "read" the signal with the comparator.

   

Came here to seek some advice, or if i can get another way of achieve the measurement of this sensors.

   

 

   

Thank you, and sorry to bother you!

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Bob_Marlowe
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No bothering. I would suggest you to do something with an output enable signal which will pit your cap loading into Hi-Z when sensing. OE is a property of the pin and you can feed it using your PWM signals.

   

 

   

Bob

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