In this article, we are going to learn how to interface MQ2 Gas Sensor with Arduino. MQ2 is basically a general purpose gas sensor (similar to MQ5) which can sense a broad range of gases like LPG, Butane, Methane(CH4), Hydrogen and in addition to these gases MQ2 is sensitive to smoke as well.
In a previous article, we have wrote a tutorial on Interfacing MQ5 Gas sensor to Arduino. Both MQ5 and MQ2 are basically gas sensors but their range of sensing different gas levels vary. For example, MQ5 can sense LPG in a broader range of 200 ppm to 10000 ppm, where as the range of MQ2 for LPG is short and is from 5000 ppm to 10000 ppm. Similarly MQ2 is sensitive to smoke where as MQ5 is not that sensitive to smoke. So we can not choose MQ5 gas sensor to design a smoke alarm or smoke involving applications.
