
Optosense LLC
USER MANUAL
Design department
SMALL-SIZE EXPLOSIVE GAS MEASURING
SENSOR MIPEX-02-X-X-X.1 X (RX)
ESAT.413347.005 UM
Revision 3.0
January 19th, 2017
Page 17 of 46
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Fig. 6. Connection diagram of multiple sensors to single UART line
Resistors are calculated as follows:
1. Determine the quantity of sensors
N
that should be connected to single UART line.
2. Determine forward voltage
U
f
of Schottky diodes (VD_N).
3. Calculate the minimum allowed resistance
R
min
by using the following equation:
R
min
=
U
h
− U
f
I
out
× (N − 1) ,
where:
U
h
– maximum high logic level voltage (2.7 V);
I
out
– maximum output current of sensor microcontroller (25 mA).