Hi,

I have been tasked with creating a circuit using a sensor of my choice, I chose a LDR, and was going to use a LM324 op-amp to activate a LED when light is shone on the LDR. I have a 5v and <250ma limit on the imput and the output must be proportional to the variable level being monitored, clamped to a range of 0V to 3.3V (ranging from at least 0.1V to 3.2V), with appropriate anti-aliasing filtering.

Any help would be appreciated and suggestions how I would go about this and circuit diagrams.

Thank you

 

What you describe is pretty simple, and can be done with 1/4 of an LM324 using only 20-25 mA of your current budget. Your comment about anti-aliasing makes me wonder if there is an intent to use a more complex system. What is this for?

ak

 

Anti-aliasing filtering is needed when you a going from an analog value to a digital value for the signal.
Is that your intent?

 

As far as I know I just have to display a 3.3v output with a light shining on the LDR and a LED activating.
I was advised to use a low pass filter to clamp. Generally I am very bad at analogue electronics and don't really know where to start, thank you for the help so far however.

 

Anyone any ideas?

 

I have been tasked with creating a circuit using a sensor of my choice, I chose a LDR, and was going to use a LM324 op-amp to activate a LED when light is shone on the LDR. I have a 5v and <250ma limit on the imput and the output must be proportional to the variable level being monitored, clamped to a range of 0V to 3.3V (ranging from at least 0.1V to 3.2V), with appropriate anti-aliasing filtering.

Your question is not very clear, which is why you aren't getting responses. Let's clean up the question a bit.

1. Do you need an output that is proportional to the light input? An example of this would be an LED that gets brighter as more light hits the LDR.

2. Do you need a digital output? That is, a signal that snaps from GND to approximately Vcc when the light on the LDR exceeds a trip point value.

3. What is the LDR? Manufacturer, part number, light resistance, dark resistance ... anything?

4. Do you have a partial schematic, block diagram, or anything to show your work up to now?

ak