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void setup() {
  pinMode(5, OUTPUT);
}

void loop() {
  analogWrite(5, 0);
  // or
  //digitalWrite(5, LOW);
}

Output is 0.003V and the tiny voltage causes the circuit to draw 20uA.

Is there anyway to get absolute 0V from Arduino PWM pin?

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  • That is a quite tiny voltage. This is not a code issue, since you cannot do more that driving the pin to LOW (which is what happens, when you use analogWrite(pin,0). Please show us your circuit. Commented Sep 21, 2019 at 19:45
  • @chrisl I'm converting arduino PWM to analog with RC and OA and then use that voltage as a reference voltage for another OA... Commented Sep 21, 2019 at 19:50
  • To be clear, setting a voltage this precise can be very hard (also because this is in the range of noise). I'm not sure, if this even comes from the Arduino. It might as well come from the opamp circuit itself, since they are not build perfectly either. Depending on your exact circuit it might be better to use an extra circuit part for turning the opamp circuit really off, instead of letting it amplify noise. Commented Sep 21, 2019 at 19:55
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    Where get's anything counted? I don't see something like this in your code. About the extra circuit: That was just a thought about cutting the power of the opamps (maybe through a MOSFET) or pulling the output of the opamp over a current limiting resistor to low (also with a MOSFET). Just a thought, not a full fletched circuit, that I could provide a link for Commented Sep 21, 2019 at 20:19
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    You probably won't get below 3mV even with a transistor (that's what the arduino already does). Do you really need to get below that tiny voltage, I mean, it's 4 times less than the pwm's (ideally filtered) resolution when running at 3V3. If so, the only chance I see is to use external circuitry Commented Sep 22, 2019 at 2:50

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It doesn't output 0v because it's near impossible. 0.003v is in fact very low. The LOW output, according to the datasheet, can be as high as 0.8v (when powered by 5v) and still be considered valid.

LOW does not mean 0v. It means "below the voltage threshold that is considered a LOW".

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