I'm curious about NiMH battery warnings from the EZ-B. As I'm using an NiMH battery pack to power a v4, I have the LiPo battery warning disabled from within the "Connection" control in ARC. I have never had my 7.2 NiMH run so low as to disconnect my EZ-B's connection and today it happened for the first time.
When the v4 disconnected from ARC, I thought this was due to a signal dropout. I power cycled the v4 and tried to re-establish the connection only to be greeted with the verbal "My battery is low" message. So does the EZ-B have a secondary battery warning system then, or have I missed something other than disabling the LiPo battery warning in the connection control?
I know a v4 shouldn't be powered with anything under 4.5 volts and didn't get the chance to see what the voltage was on my 7.2v NiMH before the v4 disconnected. Sorry if it sounds like a daft question, but this is the first time I have come across this and was curious.
Cheers.
Okay, I'll take a final stab at hopefully finding a plug n play solution. I found this meant for an Arduino during a web search and wanted any thoughts on maybe using this with an EZ-B. It can be hooked up either by ADC or digital ports and hoping this might be an easy solution to what I'm looking for. Any thoughts?
Battery Overvoltage Undervoltage Detection Sensor Module for A29 Arduino
May work but it's not available anywhere I can find.
@Dave.
Lol, yeah there is that. I had similar trouble. However there is a company in the UK that sells them but are currently "Out of Stock", but I have emailed them asking when they are likely to get some more. Fingers Crossed.
@Dave.
Good news. I managed to find somewhere that had them in stock...
Under-voltage over-voltage sensor
It will take a couple of weeks to get here as it's coming from the U.S. to the UK, but that's no problem. I just hope it will work.
Watch this space...
@Richard and anyone else using NiMH battery packs.
In post #2 when you (Richard) said "I believe it is something like 1V per cell", you wasn't far off the mark, as I have since seen it said here and there on the interweb. I did also ask on a website for a company called "Overlander" before I got your reply and received an email response this morning...
So good to know knowing the overall 4.8v threshold of a 7.2 NiMH pack. Below is a link to the website for anyone interested...
Overlander Batteries