Thursday, 22 January 2015

How do I connect a photodiode?


I'm trying to design a circuit to measure the ambient visible light (380nm to 750nm). Accuracy isn't too important.


I've been looking at photodiodes, but I'm not sure how to connect them up.



I need the following requirements from my circuit:



  • low power

  • low accuracy

  • low cost photodiode (e.g. this on digikey)

  • AD convert signal for uC


I was thinking of some sort of voltage divider with a photodiode in the circuit? Then connecting this to an op amp, before going to the AD pin of a uC.




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