Resonant Frequency!

[pbvpascual]

Using sweep frequency, I have to stop at the resonant frequency. Is there any code to do this?

 

[BobW]

We need more information. Are you trying to measure the resonant frequency of a tuned circuit? If so, how do you have it connected to your microcontroller?

 

[pbvpascual]

I am working on an impedance analyzer of RC and RL circuits. My input frequency is a sweep frequency generator and the frequency will stop after it has detected that it is the resonant frequency. The Arduino will serve as the sweep frequency generator.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I would suggest you need to do the entire sweep, and log the results across the range, as you've no way of knowing if you've reached the resonant frequency until you've gone past it. Depending on serial or parallel resonance you need to detect the lowest or highest reading.

 

[pbvpascual]

So do I need to used EEEProm?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

It depends entirely on how you write the software, and also (obviously) on the resolution you want to use.

As I said, the only way to detect the resonance is to sweep past it - only once you're past the peak (and it's going back down) do you know you've found the resonant frequency. You don't need to log all the readings, just the last 'so many' in a circular buffer, so once you've detected you're past the peak the stored values will include the resonant point.

 

[JimB]

Depending on serial or parallel resonance you need to detect the lowest or highest reading.

OK, I agree with that, but that is not the only way.

At resonance the circuit becomes purely resistive, ie the inductive and capacitive reactances are equal and opposite and so cancel out.
So at resonance the current through the tuned circuit is exactly in-phase with the applied voltage.

If you arrange that your circuit looks for 0 degree phase shift between current and voltage, then you have found the resonant frequency.
Admittedly, this may be more complicated than looking for a peak (or dip) in the voltage.

JimB