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[DPRG] Sanity Check: Connecting 3.3V Accelerometer to 5V AVR

Subject: [DPRG] Sanity Check: Connecting 3.3V Accelerometer to 5V AVR
From: Dean Hall dwhall256 at gmail.com
Date: Mon Dec 10 16:43:36 CST 2007

Jon's talking about the same thing as me, except he's using 10-bit  
conversion values and I was using 8-bit.

!!Dean


On Dec 10, 2007, at 16:28 , Jon Hylands wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Dec 2007 22:14:34 GMT, "jl_harris at juno.com"  
> <jl_harris at juno.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So what do you all think??  Can I do this without level converters  
>> on the accelerometer analog outputs?
>
> Yes, I've done exactly that with a mega168 and a 3-axis accel.
>
> http://www.bioloid.info/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=6-Axis+Bus+IMU
>
> You lose some resolution on the results - your values will go  
> between 0 -
> 675 instead of 0-1023, but it works fine.
>
> Later,
> Jon
>

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