Can i connect a pot directly without ADC to 16F877a to read?

uma · Joined: 17 Apr 2014 Posts: 29 Location: chennai

Can i connect a potentiometer directly without ADC to 16F877a to read the values directly ? Pls reply soon. waiting for it. I want to connect the pot as Analog Input.
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Mike Walne · Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1785 Location: Boston Spa UK

The '877A PIC has a built in ADC.

Read the data sheet to find out which pins you can use as analogue inputs.

Mike

temtronic · Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:15 am

As Mike says, The 877 does have several inputs to the ADC however if none are available there is a method of using a digital I/O pin to read analoque voltages. You'll have to probably use Google to locate the method. I can't show you my CCS C code for it as that was 14 years ago when I did it!

hth
jay

asmboy · Joined: 20 Nov 2007 Posts: 2128 Location: albany ny

as a rule of thumb:

the resistance of the pot - end to end must be NO greater than Twice the MINIMUM specified source impedance for accurate ADC reading.

so for a given PIC with a 5k ohm source minimum a 10k pot is as HIGH in value as you dare go.
assuming one end of pot is at Vcc and the other at ground.

Ttelmah · Joined: 11 Mar 2010 Posts: 19538

You can also cheat another way.
This chip has a programmable Vref, feeding the comparator. Only a handful of lines of code to simulate a 16 level ADC with this.

uma · Joined: 17 Apr 2014 Posts: 29 Location: chennai

thanks for your responses guys,i was busy a little with other project,hence took a gap in this project.I will come back again with my queries after creating and testing my model.
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