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[what happened] Periodic signal at 2min / cycle in od reading

Open CamDavidsonPilon opened this issue 3 years ago • 1 comments

Screen Shot 2022-01-18 at 11 46 21 AM

If the OD signal looks like this, then likely the LED driver output is saturated and we are basically seeing the 5V rail noise. You can test this by running a CPU intense command (like pio update --app --dev) and seeing the OD drop (pictured above).


Solution is to drop the ir_intensity in the config. In the above graph, the IR intensity was 95%, and I was using v0.1 HAT. After setting the ir_intensity to 45%, this was the result:

Screen Shot 2022-01-18 at 11 53 04 AM

Nice.

CamDavidsonPilon avatar Jan 18 '22 16:01 CamDavidsonPilon

This should be fixed in the production HAT however

CamDavidsonPilon avatar Jan 18 '22 16:01 CamDavidsonPilon