TIDUF72 August 2024
While the AMC131M03 is used on this two-layer PCB, the two-channel version AMC131M02 suffices, in case current and voltage only are to be measured. The third channel in AMC131M03 can support a temperature measurement at the SHUNT sensor, if required.
The choice of voltage divider resistors for the voltage channel makes sure that the mains voltage is divided down to adhere to the normal input range of the ADS131M02 device. Since this stand-alone ADC has a large dynamic range but only a small range is needed to measure voltage, the voltage front-end circuitry is purposely selected so that the maximum voltage observed at the inputs of the voltage channel ADCs are only a fraction of the full-scale voltage. By reducing the voltage fed to the ADS131M02 voltage input channel, voltage to current crosstalk, which actually affects metrology accuracy more than voltage ADC accuracy, is reduced at the cost of voltage accuracy, thereby resulting in more accurate energy measurements at lower currents.