Analog Pressure sensor

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When you want to measure pressure of liquids like oil or water, you could buy one of the pressure sensors on the internet, like this one:

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It is very easy to install, has an analog output and a linear conversion. There are however a number of challenges:

1 If you want to measure pressure in Bar, how is it converted from PSI
2 How can voltages higher than 1.0 or 3.3 volts be measured with the on-board ADC
3 How can you make sensible readings with ESPEasy
Ad. 1 With one of the many freely available converters on the internet, you can easily discover that 1 Bar (100.000 Pascal)   equals to 14,5037737796859 PSI (pound per square inch). This sensor ranges from 0 to 6,89475729 Bar.
Ad. 2 It only takes a simple network of resistors to match measured voltages to the input specifications of the ESP8266
Ad. 3 This takes some calculation.