Data Sheet

MLX90614 family
Single and Dual Zone
Infra Red Thermometer in TO-39
3901090614 Page 34 of 52 Data Sheet
Rev 008 February 28, 2013
dependence comes from the ambient temperature it is the same for all type of devices regardless of FOV and
optics used and it directly translates in the same compensation for object temperature.
The typical VDD dependence of the ambient and object temperature is 0.6°C/V.
Typical Ta=f(VDD) dependance
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Ta error, DegC
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Figure 24: Typical Ta dependence from supply voltage
Example: As the devices are calibrated at VDD=3V the error at VDD=3V is smallest one. The error in ambient
channel is directly transferred as object channel error (see Figure 25 bellow).
Typical To=f(VDD) dependance
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Figure 25: Typical To dependence from supply voltage (practically the same as Ta dependence error
In order to compensate for this error we measure supply voltage and by applying following equation
compensate the result.
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Compensated VDD dependence
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Figure 26: Typical To compensated dependence error