Supported battery configurations
The menu has 5 battery related options
- battery configuration:
- parallel
- series
- dual with alerts on Battery 1
- dual with alerts on Battery 2
- dual with voltage on Battery 1 and current on Battery 2
- dual with voltage on Battery 2 and current on Battery 1
- battery 1 capacity
- battery 1 cell count override up to 16s
- battery 2 capacity
- battery 2 cell count override up to 16s
The script tries to autodetect each pack cell count by monitoring the maximum voltage. If autodetection fails it's possible to individually override cell count in the configuration menu up to 16s.
To support a battery with a voltage higher than 51V it is necessary to override cell count to 12s or higher for that battery.
Note: this is supported only for single, dual independent or dual parallel batteries configurations.
- Single power module: In this configuration only 1 battery will be detected, fc will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is calculated as battery pack voltage divided by cell count. Current and consumed mAh will be reported. Battery percentage depends on battery capacity either received from ArduPilot or overriden from the menu.
- Single FLVSS sensor: In this configuration only 1 battery will be detected,vs will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is the minimum cell voltage of the pack. No current or battery consumption will be availbale. If the user overrides battery capacity from the config menu battery % will be stuck at 99%.
- Single power module + Single FLVSS sensor: In this configuration only 1 battery will be detected, vs will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is the minimum cell voltage of the pack. Current and consumed mAh will be reported. Battery percentage depends on battery capacity either received from ArduPilot or overriden from the menu.
- Dual power module: In this configuration 2 batteries will be detected, fc will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is calculated as battery pack voltage divided by cell count. Current and consumed mAh will be reported. Battery percentage depends on battery capacity either received from ArduPilot or overriden from the menu. Battery stats can be displayed in aggregate view or separate battery view (battery 1 in right pane and battery 2 in left pane). In aggregate battery view Cell voltage is the minimun cell voltage between battery 1 and 2, current is the sum of current 1 and current 2, consumed mAh is the sum of mAh 1 and mAh 2 and battery percentage is the weighted average of percentage 1 and percentage 2
- Dual FLVSS sensor: In this configuration 2 batteries will be detected,vs will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is the minimum cell voltage of the pack. No current or battery consumption will be availbale. If the user overrides battery capacity from the config menu battery % will be stuck at 99%. Battery stats can be displayed in aggregate view or separate battery view (battery 1 in right pane and battery 2 in left pane). In aggregate battery view Cell voltage is the minimun cell voltage between battery 1 and 2.
- Dual FLVSS sensors + dual power module: In this configuration 2 batteries will be detected, vs will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is the minimum cell voltage of the pack. Current and consumed mAh will be reported. Battery percentage depends on battery capacity either received from ArduPilot or overriden from the menu. Battery stats can be displayed in aggregate view or separate battery view (battery 1 in right pane and battery 2 in left pane). In aggregate battery view Cell voltage is the minimun cell voltage between battery 1 and 2, current is the sum of current 1 and current 2, consumed mAh is the sum of mAh 1 and mAh 2 and battery percentage is the weighted average of percentage 1 and percentage 2.
- Dual FLVSS + single power module: In this configuration 2 batteries will be detected, vs will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is the minimum cell voltage of the pack. The script assumes that the power module is monitoring the aggregate current from both batteries (in parallel), i.e. load is equally shared between the two batteries and the displayed current in dual battery view will be half on battery 1 and half on battery 2.
To enable this configuration select "par" as battery wiring, this is the default configuration.
- Dual chained FLVSS + single power module: In this configuration 1 battery will be detected, vs will be displayed next to the cell voltage, Cell voltage is the minimum cell voltage of both packs. Current and consumed mAh will be reported. Battery percentage depends on battery capacity either received from ArduPilot or overriden from the menu.
To enable this configuration select "ser" as battery wiring and configure pack capacity for battery 1 only (battery 2 capacity is ignored). Cell count can be individually overriden for each battery.
Both battery voltages are tracked independentely but only battery 1 is monitored by the battery alarm system, please use battery 1 as main vehicle battery
- battery 1 monitoring is supported will all single battery configurations
- battery 2 monitoring is supported with all single battery configurations.
To enable this configuration select "other" as battery wiring.
Both battery voltages and currents are tracked independentely but only battery 1 is monitored by the battery voltage alarm system,
Both battery voltages and currents are tracked independentely but only battery 2 is monitored by the battery voltage alarm system,
Dual battery configuration: voltage alerts on Battery 1, battery % on battery 2 (version 1.9.5 and above)
Both battery voltages and currents are tracked independentely but battery 1 is used for voltage monitoring and battery 2 is used for battery %
Dual battery configuration: voltage alerts on Battery 2, battery % on battery 1 (version 1.9.5 and above)
Both battery voltages and currents are tracked independentely but battery 2 is used for voltage monitoring and battery 1 is used for battery %
- Passthrough protocol specs
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- How to display additional sensors on screen
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- Battery configurations
- Airspeed vs Groundspeed
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- MavToPT support
- Supported Radios
- Installation on BW LCD radios running OpenTX/EdgeTX
- Installation on Color LCD radios running OpenTX/EdgeTX
- Installation on Color LCD radios running Ethos
- CRSF and ExpressLRS support
- Ardupilot Hardware requirements
- Ardupilot Configuration
- Google Maps configuration
- GMAPCatcher Maps configuration
- QGIS Maps configuration
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- Configuration menu
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