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October 9, 2017 at 12:54 am
#47983
Ray
Keymaster
Not too hard — there is 0.2ohm current sensing resistor combined with an op-amp based precision rectifier. The signal can then be fed into the ADC (on OpenSprinkler, the microcontroller itself has ADC pins, whereas RPi doesn’t have built-in ADC but OSPi has a PCF8591 ADC chip on board).