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Post: Hello The voltage divider on the ADC Pi inputs consists of a 10K and 6.8K resistor so the input impedance between the input and ground is 16.8K. The MCP3424 ADC chip we use has a maximum input voltage of 2.048V so the voltage divider divides the input by 2.47 allowing the ADC Pi inputs to measure between 0 and 5.05V. The only way to increase the input impedance would be to remove the voltage divider and connect it to the ADC chip directly. You could do this by removing the two input resistors and bridging the pads for the 10K resistor. The downside is your input would then be limited to 2.048V. According to the datasheet for the MCP3424 the input impedance for each ADC channel is 2.25MΩ/PGA. As the input impedance on the ADC Pi is defined by the voltage divider changing the PGA value will have very little difference. If your sensor has an output impedance of 16.7kOhm then that is being added to the 10K resistor on the input so the voltage divider now has 26.7K instead of 10K so if there is 1V at the ADC Pi input instead of seeing 0.405V the MCP3424 is seeing 0.203V. If you multiply the measured voltage by 1.993 that should hopefully give you the correct value.