2/Theory of Operation
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Voltage Reference
Voltage reference is internal to the MAX191BCWG and adjusted with a potentiom-
eter. This reference voltage is buffered and used for the digital to analog converter
reference.
Flow Valve Control
The flow valve control circuit consists of a D/A converter and a voltage to current
conversion circuit.
D/A Conversion
The D/A conversion for the flow valve drive circuit is based around the MAXIM
MAX530BCWG 12-Bit DAC. The output of the DAC is fed to an input of the A/D
converter multiplexer allowing the microprocessor to monitor the DAC output.
The MAX530BCWG is a 12-Bit D/A converter operates from a single 5 Volt power
supply. The output range of the converter is 0 to 4.095 Volts (1mV per LSB).
The MAX530BCWG has the following dc accuracy specifications:
Flow Valve Drive Circuit
The Flow Valve Drive Circuit supplies flow valve current based on a given DAC in-
put voltage setting. With a 0 to 4.000 Volts input, the drive circuit outputs 0 to 1.0
Amps typical into a 3 ohm load. This circuit does not require adjustment and is ac-
curate within ± 2% of full scale.
This circuit also limits the flow valve output to less than 10VA under normal oper-
ation and under a single fault condition. This is a requirement of the international
regulation IEC 601-2-13.
A signal representative of actual drive current is input to the A/D converter to allow
the processor to monitor the current and detect faulty conditions.
• Integral Nonlinearity ± 1 LSB max
• Differential Nonlinearity ± 1 LSB max (guaranteed monotonic)
• Full-Scale Error ± 1 LSB max
• Zero-Scale Error + 4 LSB max
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