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Saturday, March 31, 2012 Gas Sensor Tutorial

We just received a bunch of Gas Sensors from Hacktronics. These sensors include: MQ2 - Flammable Gas & Smoke MQ3 - Alcohol MQ4 - Methane MQ6 - LPG / IsoButane / Propane MQ7 - Carbon Monoxide MQ9 - Carbon Monoxide & Flammable Gas

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Today's project is a smoke detector that turns on an LED when smoke concentrations exceed a certain level. We soldered the sensor to the carrier board, along with a sensitivity resistor and a 3 pin header. The carrier board pins are VCC (+5v), GND, and Out, which connects to A0 on our Arduino. We connected a LED to Pin 13 and Gnd as indication of an alarm state (smoke detected). See the video and the code we used: Next step is a temp sensor for heat detection, and a relay for a siren.

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Marco Cecchetti via Google+ 3 months ago - Shared publicly Rivelatore di fumo per l'ambiente domestico. Translate
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Andrea Creti 10 months ago - Shared publicly Very nice and usefull! thans ;)
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amit kumar 10 months ago - Shared publicly thank u sir for providing such a nice tutorial it works great......for me.
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Matt Gangloff 6 months ago - Shared publicly Sir, First of all, thank you for taking your time to post this outstanding tutorial. I am currently trying to replicate it. One issue: I have slightly different components. Specifically, the breakout board I am using is(10 slightly different and I suspect this is what is Read more lines) preventing me from getting accurate data. I also started a blog to 1 my Reply chronicle projects. Will you check this link out and see if there is something that you can spot that is wrong? Here is the link to my blog post in which I beg for help: http://wsenvironmental.org/2013/08/15/building-an-arduinoNka Rfan 4 months ago - Shared publicly gas-sensor/ very nice and useful ..thanx..can i ask you,, it is same with QMNG1 and MQ1? Thank you so much for any help you can give me, -Matt1 Reply

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Steve Spence 11 months ago Just connect a 5v piezo instead of the LED.

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jose jr. lacanaria 11 months ago can you plz share us how to make the fire alam with fire senzor using arduino

Steve Spence 1 year ago The data sheet explains the pins. http://www.pololu.com/file/download/MQ2.pdf?file_id=0J309 Yes, you need the Arduino.

Tarun kumar 1 year ago hey am having MQ-2 gas sensor with 6 pins wat to do..... can we make this experiment without using arduino

Trefex 1 year ago Hi, Great post. Did you get the MQ7 to work? Would you mind telling us how you connected the sensor especially with the PWM part for the heating coil? Thank you so much!

Porn??? Tidak.....??? 1 year ago i want to ask, if i want use buzzer and fan can i get the source code? i need your help.. send to my email, [email protected]

Jasmin Patel 1 year ago hey how did you solder the sensor on the breakout board because i am confuse between six pins.

Steve Spence 1 year ago We used a 20k ohm IIRC. I'd suggest a 30k - 40k pot so you can adjust sensitivity for different gases.

Bhuwnesh Joshi 1 year ago what is the value for resistor R1 Shown in diagram Above .Thank you in advance

Amroq 1 year ago Hey. Great post. Just testing this sensor right now. I was wondering if you have calibrated the sensor as documented in the datasheet? If so, which equipment did you use?

Steve Spence 1 year ago No, I did not calibrate it. I was just shooting for a confirmation that smoke existed.

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