It might just be because I’m testing with unfinished boards. Ordered all components at the same time, but the ones send with China Post seem to take forever.
Good point!! I wasn’t doing any charging or discharging (just voltage check) and am now switching from the ICSP header to the ADUM
I would test once you have a finished board and i think you will find that both stuarts and my code would work without any modifications. I’m told the attiny reset pin is pulled high through the thermistor so without it your going to have issues, stuart should be able to confirm that however.
You could put in a temporary resistor instead (obviously the temperature won’t change )
The ATTINY85 is low on number of IO pins so we use “half” of the reset pin voltage as the ADC for the temperature sensor. We could use the whole voltage range but you then lose the ability to reset the chip and programming becomes a real pain.
Did anyone start to think about monitoring the complete battery system?
The high voltage and current system that is when putting the packs in series.
In my case, I’m thinking about a 14s system. So that’s up to nearly 60v. And high current. We could use shunts, but is anyone familiar with http://www.ti.com/tool/TIDA-00528?
I’m going to be using the LTC2944 for my 14s system.
It works up to 60V and I was attracted to this one because it supports high side monitoring.
As I understand it, low side monitoring can sometimes cause problems with some inverters/chargers.
finally was able to connect my raspberry pi to my tracer mppt solar charge controller. Thank you Collin for your excellent tutorial on how to setup grafana on the raspberry pi.
Yeah you have been a huge help thanks. I am a high school student so I don’t know what Im doing half the time.
I am having a lot of fun putting this all together.