3.3V step up regulator voltage monitoring
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What voltage is your battery?
This is one way to measure voltage
https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=356752.0@flopp yes your link is to the method i'm currently using to monitor Vcc which is about 3.3V. But my battery is actually 2 AA in series which output voltage is 3.3 V only when new...and should decrease progressively. My question is: is it necessary to monitor the Voltage of this battery or is it safe to only monitor the Vcc which is the output of the step up 3.3V regulator ?
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@flopp yes your link is to the method i'm currently using to monitor Vcc which is about 3.3V. But my battery is actually 2 AA in series which output voltage is 3.3 V only when new...and should decrease progressively. My question is: is it necessary to monitor the Voltage of this battery or is it safe to only monitor the Vcc which is the output of the step up 3.3V regulator ?
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@fhenryco
If you measure after the step-up you will never know when it will "die".
You need to measure before step-up to see battery level@flopp Ok but are you sure ? i mean if the step up fails to output 3.3V when battery level gets too low, monitoring a decrease of the regulator output (to arduino Vcc) might indicate death coming soon ... and after all this is all i need to know except if "coming soon" means " too soon" to react and prevent failure by changing battery
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@flopp Ok but are you sure ? i mean if the step up fails to output 3.3V when battery level gets too low, monitoring a decrease of the regulator output (to arduino Vcc) might indicate death coming soon ... and after all this is all i need to know except if "coming soon" means " too soon" to react and prevent failure by changing battery
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stepup will simply fail, you'll get brownout, transmit problems etc..so you won't know anything in the end..
it's better to monitor your batt voltage. you don't need a voltage divider for this, as your batt voltage will always be <= vcc. So Analogread your batt voltage, and your range will be 0 to 3.3v. -
stepup will simply fail, you'll get brownout, transmit problems etc..so you won't know anything in the end..
it's better to monitor your batt voltage. you don't need a voltage divider for this, as your batt voltage will always be <= vcc. So Analogread your batt voltage, and your range will be 0 to 3.3v. -
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actually, as i now remember i was using the voltage divider to reduce the battery voltage below the reference internal voltage ~ 1.1V ... this is some people advice for better accuracy. I'm now wondering if i can avoid this (the voltage divider) and still have a correct precision
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actually, as i now remember i was using the voltage divider to reduce the battery voltage below the reference internal voltage ~ 1.1V ... this is some people advice for better accuracy. I'm now wondering if i can avoid this (the voltage divider) and still have a correct precision
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well i don't need great precision, just need to be alerted
when the battery voltage is getting dangerously low
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