Air Quality Click

Mikroe Air Quality Click User manual

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3. Plugging the board in
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2. Soldering the headers
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4. Essential features
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Air quality click
Once you have soldered the headers your
board is ready to be placed into the desired
mikroBUS socket. Make sure to align the
cut in the lower-right part of the board
with the markings on the silkscreen at the
mikroBUS socket. If all the pins
are aligned correctly, push the
board all the way into the socket.
Turn the board upward again. Make sure
to align the headers so that they are
perpendicular to the board, then solder
the pins carefully.
Turn the board upside down so that
the bottom side is facing you upwards.
Place shorter pins of the header into the
appropriate soldering pads.
Before using your click board, make sure
to solder 1x8 male headers to both left
and right side of the board. Two 1x8 male
headers are included with the board in
the package.
Air quality click is suitable for detecting
ammonia (NH3), nitrogen oxides (NOx)
benzene, smoke, CO2 and other harmful or
poisonous gases that impact air quality. The
MQ-135 sensor unit has a sensor layer made
of tin dioxide (SnO2), an inorganic compound
which has lower conductivity in clean air
than when polluting gases are present. Air
quality click also contains a potentiometer
that lets you adjust the sensor for the
environment you’ll be using it in.
1. Introduction
Air quality click is a simple solution
for adding a high sensitivity sensor for
detecting a variety of gases that impact
air quality in homes and oces. The board
features an MQ-135 sensor, a calibration
potentiometer, a mikroBUS host socket,
two jumpers and a power indicator LED.
Air quality click communicates with the
target board through mikroBUS AN (OUT)
line. Air quality click is designed to use a
5V power supply only.
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8. Support
7. Code examples
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MikroElektronika assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in the present document.
Specication and information contained in the present schematic are subject to change at any time without notice. Copyright © 2014 MikroElektronika. All rights reserved.
5. Air quality click board schematic
VCC
R1
2K2
VCC
R2
10K
VCC
AN
RST
CS
SCK
MOSI
MISO
+3.3V
GND
PWM
INT
RX
TX
SCL
SDA
+5V
GND
MIKROBUS DEVICE CONN.
Analog output
PWR
P1
10K
B
H
B
A
H
A
MQ-135
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of the product’s lifetime, so if something
goes wrong, we’re ready and willing to help!
Once you have done all the necessary
preparations, it’s time to get your click board
up and running. We have provided examples
for mikroC, mikroBasic and mikroPascal
compilers on our Libstock website. Just
download them and you are ready to start.
To calibrate Air quality click for optimum
performance, use the on-board potentiom-
eter to adjust the load resistance on the
sensor circuit.
6. Calibration potentiometer
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