Wrong values from ADC Arduino - frequnecy meter

Hi there!

I'm building a frequency meter using as input a sine wave between 0.05V-0.55V (from a peak detector) and a frequency range between 5Khz-10Khz. I tried to change the sampling rate (I need at least 20Khz) to 76Khz (setting 16 prescaler from ADCSRA register), but the resulting data from ADC it's a constant (=255). I didn't find anything which could cause this constant output.

Having a higher sampling rate means that I could find more precisely the max amplitudes and then I could measure the time period between two max amplitudes resulting the frequency.

Any help or tips would be much appreciated! Thanks in advance!

The output: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jyguxpz8k18zsco/output.png?dl=0

The input: https://www.dropbox.com/s/94ou221vn89ndj0/sine_wave.jpg?dl=0

Code:

const int MAX_RESULTS = 256;
volatile int results [MAX_RESULTS];
volatile int resultNumber;

void setup() {
  ADMUX = 0x20; // set A0 analog input
  ADCSRA = 0xEC;// set 16 prescaler, enable ADC and interrupts and start ADC measurements
  Serial.begin(115200);
}

  ISR (ADC_vect)
{
   results[resultNumber++] = ADCH;
   if(resultNumber == MAX_RESULTS)
   {
     ADCSRA = 0;  // turn off ADC
   }

}

void loop () {
  while (resultNumber < MAX_RESULTS)
   { }

 for (int i = 0; i < MAX_RESULTS; i++)
  {
   Serial.println (results[i]);
  }
  //start a new conversion
  resultNumber = 0;
  ADCSRA = 0xEC;
}

 

Thanks for your answer, @Harald Kapp. That problem is solved, now we'are thinking about how to calculate the frequency having this output sine wave. Do you have any idea?

The output wave: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9ce297vr7b77d19/out.png?dl=0



Moderators note : embeded reduced image

 

I don't think that the sampling rate is too low, now it's round about 76Khz.