The Ice Thickness System Design Based on PCap01 with High Accuracy

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In the process of water-into-ice, the capacitance will be changed, the ice thickness can be obtained indirectly through the detection of capacitance. This paper introduced an ice thickness measurement method based on PCap01 high precision micro capacitance measurement chip. The system designed with this method takes low power micro-controller MSP430F149 as the core, Labview as PC. The communication between PCap01 and MSP430F149 through the SPI bus, then the PC realizes the real-time data display and storage. Experimental results show that, the system has the advantages of simple structure, high precision, strong practicability, low power consumption, it is very suitable for the measurement.

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