Changing ADC to over-sampling mode for higher resolution? Moderators: adafruit_support_bill, adafruit

[kevinjwalters]

Is there a way to change the ADC mode in CircuitPython? I see the nRF52840 has a 14bit mode with over-sampling in hardware.

[kevinjwalters]

For background, I've been looking at how fast I can sample the ADC in CircuitPython and how well the arithmetic mean across some (unfiltered) samples deals with noise. Here's a USB-powered Adafruit CLUE measuring an old alkaline battery on P1. The second graph is a set of samples where the value has been dragged down and judging by the weighted line which is created with reduced effect of outliers it's the low outliers causing the mean not to represent the actual/desired value.

Adafruit CLUE measuring an old alkaline battery - first set of samples

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Adafruit CLUE measuring an old alkaline battery - second set of samples

batterys6-samples-fitted-lines.png (39.35 KiB) Viewed 75 times

The colour/size coding for outliers is not consistent between graphs, btw.

[tannewt]

Is there a way to change the ADC mode in CircuitPython? I see the nRF52840 has a 14bit mode with over-sampling in hardware.

Not from Python code. If you find a better default setting for a single read then we could just integrate it into the source.