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I want to use a shunt resistor to measure the current that flows from and in a battery. The current is set by power supply for charging(positive current) and by electronic load for discharging (negative current). I want to amplify the voltage drop over the shunt resistor with instrumental op amp that gives a gain equal to 50.4. The op amp that I'm using is AD620 with Rg resistor equal to 1k with tolerance 0.1%. I want to send the output of op amp in ADC converter to acquire the measurement.

The problem is that the results aren't what I expected, shown in figure, and I don't understand which is the problem. In figure there is a comparison with hall-effect sensor(black line), instead the red line is the current measured by shunt.

schematic

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Results obtained using the reported schematic

Results obtained connecting one of shunt terminal to ground

The second figure shows results obtained connecting one of shunt terminal to ground

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  • \$\begingroup\$ You need to tie the bottom end of the shunt to your ground on the AD620, or the inputs are not referenced. \$\endgroup\$
    – Trevor_G
    Apr 4, 2017 at 16:32
  • \$\begingroup\$ @Trevor Do I have to it using a resistor ? \$\endgroup\$
    – Anto
    Apr 4, 2017 at 16:33
  • \$\begingroup\$ You can but it will be more noise sensitive. \$\endgroup\$
    – Trevor_G
    Apr 4, 2017 at 16:34
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    \$\begingroup\$ yes, the battery circuit and the measurement circuit are totally decoupled \$\endgroup\$
    – Anto
    Apr 4, 2017 at 16:37
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    \$\begingroup\$ @peufeu You mean to connect ground of measurement circuit with ground of battery circuit? \$\endgroup\$
    – Anto
    Apr 4, 2017 at 16:44

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Would be better with Balanced sensing as shown here.

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