6S Batterysensor for FrSky TwoWay

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6S Batterysensor for FrSky TwoWay

Postby takilara » Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:10 am

At some point, I will probably use a microcontroller to receive GPS data, and individual cell voltages from my 6S battery.

However, as a starting point, I am planning to use a simple voltage divider to connect to the "outer" pins of the balance connector.

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Preliminary schematics
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This should have approximately 3mA current draw, so should not affect flight time too much..

One issue though, i have no "polarity protection", if i connect the balancer plug the wrong way, I will probably blow something Is it possible to put a diode or something in series to prevent incorrect orientation? Will this have an effect on the resistor numbers?
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Re: 6S Batterysensor for FrSky TwoWay

Postby RCModelReviews » Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:08 pm

A diode won't make much difference (just 0.6V-0.7V) which is just 3% of the nominal voltage from a 6S lipo.
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Re: 6S Batterysensor for FrSky TwoWay

Postby takilara » Sat Jul 31, 2010 11:31 pm

I didn't have any suitable diodes around, so i'll skip them for now,
soldered up, and measure 3.25 at output with fully charged batt, now i only have to set up the alarms and test it...
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Re: 6S Batterysensor for FrSky TwoWay

Postby RCModelReviews » Sun Aug 01, 2010 12:25 am

Given the low-current involved, any diode (from a 1N4148 to a IN4007 would have done), they all have about the same forward drop and a few mA won't cause any heating. Good job though -- looks great.
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Re: 6S Batterysensor for FrSky TwoWay

Postby takilara » Sun Aug 01, 2010 7:40 am

I only had very large power diodes here (larger than that stripboard), and was too anxious to connect it up to look for any other
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