Thread: Potentiometer with ADC
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Re: Potentiometer with ADC
How is that a problem when analog inputs return an unsigned int (16-bits on the PIC18, more than enough for the 10-bit ADC conversion)? I'm assuming %d is expecting an int, so it should be fine. Even if the compiler was lopping of the 2 MSbs of the result, it should still return a value from 0-255.

Thanks for the help, though. We're going to try some new linear taper 10k/50k pots tomorrow. We really weren't sure exactly what kind of pots the old ones were, only that they were 100k ohm.
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