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  There are 2 LEDs on the PCB: a red one showing that the board is powered and a green one connected to the DAC output.
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You can distinguish the PCF8591 chip, the potentiometer and the photo resistor and thermistor. The pins on the left make the connections to external analogue signals and 1 pin provides the DAC output while the pins on the right implement the I2C interface with SCL, SDA, Vcc and Gnd.

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The PCF8591 is a 4 channel analogue to digital (ADC) and 1 channel digital to analogue converter (DAC). ADC and DAC have 8 bit resolution. The PCB card already contains 3 devices that can be connected via jumpers to the ADC inputs:

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  • a potentiometer on channel 0
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  • a thermistor on channel 2
  • channel 3 is free
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  • a potentiometer on channel 3
  • a photo resistor on channel 0
  • a thermistor on channel 1
  • channel 2 is free
 The sensors are resistors whose resistivity changes with the parameter to be measured (temperature or light intensity) and, in conjunction with a 1 kΩ resistor they implement a voltage divider. This voltage is converted to a digital value by the ADC.
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 I used the forth channel to feed back the DAC output.
pcf8591front.png pcf8591back.png
pcf8591 front pcf8591 back
You can distinguish the PCF8591 chip, the potentiometer and the photo resistor and thermistor. The pins on the left make the connections to external analogue signals and 1 pin provides the DAC output while the pins on the right implement the I2C interface with SCL, SDA, Vcc and Gnd.
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Unfortunately on the boards I purchased in China there is an error on the PCB: The thermistor is not correctly connected to ground. For this reason I only see the value 0xff. A little bridge between the ground pin of the photo resistor and the thermistor will do the trick.

 -- Uli Raich - 2017-02-01

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>		The PCF8591 is a 4 channel analogue to digital (ADC) and 1 channel digital to analogue converter (DAC). ADC and DAC have 8 bit resolution. The PCB card already contains 3 devices that can be connected via jumpers to the ADC inputs:

  • a potentiometer on channel 0
  • a photo resistor on channel 1
  • a thermistor on channel 2
  • channel 3 is free
The sensors are resistors whose resistivity changes with the parameter to be measured (temperature or light intensity) and, in conjunction with a 1 kΩ resistor they implement a voltage divider. This voltage is converted to a digital value by the ADC.

I used the forth channel to feed back the DAC output.

pcf8591front.png pcf8591back.png
pcf8591 front pcf8591 back
You can distinguish the PCF8591 chip, the potentiometer and the photo resistor and thermistor. The pins on the left make the connections to external analogue signals and 1 pin provides the DAC output while the pins on the right implement the I2C interface with SCL, SDA, Vcc and Gnd.
  -- Uli Raich - 2017-02-01

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-- Uli Raich - 2017-02-01

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