wireless transmission of analog signal

hi, i am completely new to wireless technologies . so please help me even if it is very basic question. :slight_smile:

i have to transmit potentiometer voltage signal through rf 2.4ghz transceiver for the project ii am working on.

But i dont have any idea how to link pot with the transceiver.Am i supposed to use microcontroller ckt for this or simple ADC will be fine??

I want to know how the connections are made because i dont understand functioning of transceiver terminals .

Thank u

Which transceiver modules are you using???

If you use the XBee Series 1 modules this can be done (kind of).

A pot can be connected to the sending XBee’s ADC input. It would send the ADC value to the receiving XBee which would vary a PWM output duty cycle (which is low pass filtered to a DC level).

Is this what you want to do?

Thank u fr ur reply.

I am using TR24A transceiver .I am using Arduino Uno board on the receiving end. Do i have to use that board on the transmitting end also?? or i can just connect pot to the transceiver directly by some means.??

I have no idea what the R24A transceiver can do.

Post a link to its Data Sheet.

Have you gotten this transceiver working with your Arduino?

Can you send data across?

Does it have analog inputs and analog outputs?

http://mdfly.com/newmdfly/products/RF2. … /TR24A.pdf

no,i haven’t got it working yet.Like i told you i don’t even know what are all those terminals mean.I don’t think it has any analog i/o’s .It only has power terminals and SPI interfacing terminals.

Well, the data sheet indicates that all interfacing is through the SPI buss (google “SPI serial” and “SPI on Arduino”) and a few additional status/control lines.

But no information on what commands, data format etc is required and I saw one obvious typo in the DS.

There is much more info needed to use this RF module. Is there a programming/interface guide from the company that sells this?

If not then it is probably best to avoid this module since you will be doing a lot of guessing and trials to maybe get it working.

I’ve done this exact thing using a pair of our nRF24LE1 breakout boards, using the chip’s built-in ADC on the input side. I strapped a SPI DAC (Microchip MCP4921) to the output side so that I had the same analog voltage on both sides of the link.