[PATCH] Visualisation of individual oxygen sensor data for CCR dives

Jef Driesen jef at libdivecomputer.org
Mon Apr 17 12:49:06 PDT 2017


On 14-04-17 22:04, Anton Lundin wrote:
> On 14 April, 2017 - Jef Driesen wrote:
>
>> On 2017-04-13 17:04, Jef Driesen wrote:
>> I tried a different approach yesterday. Instead of adding 1024 to
>> the calibration value, I simply used the stored value as is, and
>> calculated the average ppO2 over all three sensors. Then I plotted
>> all those values against the average ppO2 reported by the device.
>> And guess what, there is a nice linear relationship between the two!
>> Doing a linear regression on the data gives a scaling factor of 2.2.
>
> Interesting find.
>
>> For the example above this gives:
>>
>> Sensor 0: 0.642 = 33 mV * 885 / 100000.0 * 2.2
>> Sensor 1: 0.630 = 29 mV * 989 / 100000.0 * 2.2
>> Sensor 2: 0.674 = 26 mv * 1179 / 100000.0 * 2.2
>>
>> As you can see, the average ppO2 (0.648) is now very close to the
>> average ppO2 reported by the device (0.65). This seems to be true
>> for all samples. The largest difference is now 0.018.
>>
>> The next question is of course what's the source of this factor 2.2?
>
> Could it be that the calibration value is stored in some odd format, and
> thats where the / 100000.0 * 2.2 part comes from?

My first thought was that it represents some kind of relative value. If you look 
at one of my previous emails, you'll notice that the default value for the 
calibration (when not yet calibrated) is 2100 for the Petrel. And the 
calibration values for the Predator are all near the value 1000. Relative that's 
a factor of 2.1. That's not close enough to 2.2 to produce correct ppO2 values, 
but it's the only explanation I have that makes some sense to me.

BTW, the fact that the calibration values are near 1000 is also why adding 1024 
worked for most samples. If the value is a bit higher than 1000, then the result 
is pretty close to multiplying with 2.2.

>> And is correct for all Predators?
>
> How did it line up on the petrels?

I only checked for the predators. For the petrel, the results are already 
correct without the 2.2 scaling factor. So applying it there too, will produce 
wrong results. So this is most likely something specific to the predators only.

Jef


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