Extend accelerometer range up to 40g

The board sensors are limited to 16g, so I cannot record my pylon racer dynamics in high g turns (~1.5s long). They are typically in the 20-30g range, but might unfortunatly (racing wise) go beyond that.

These sensors sounds good :
Sparkfun sells the ADXL193 : +/-120g  ; analog out (18mV/g ; 24kHz)
Adafruit sells the ADXL377 : +/-200g  ; analog out ( 6mV/g ; 1kHz)
Someone might sell ADXL78  : +/- 50g  ; analog out (38mV/g ; 400Hz)
NXP sells the MMA685x      : +/-120g  ; SPI
NXP sells the MMA685x      : +/-50g   ; SPI

-> Sounds to me like using the ADC would be the easiest. I am hoping to simply connect the analog out to the ADC and somehow set the recording rate to 10ms or so.

- Would that work ?
- Would that data be combined in the EKF filter to get full attitude estimation ?
- Should I go for the SPI solution to make that work ?


Thanks a lot for your help.

Julien


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