With the link: http://www.powerstream.com/AA-tests.htm

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: André Rodrigues 
  To: David Conde ; 'Arik' ; 'Nicola Bressan' 
  Cc: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:21 AM
  Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Battery Level for Telosb


  Hi

  Just see 4 graph (for alcaline) and 5 graph (for nimh).

  Regards,

  André

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: David Conde 
    To: 'Arik' ; 'Nicola Bressan' 
    Cc: [email protected] 
    Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 11:19 AM
    Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Battery Level for Telosb


    Hi Arik,

     

    It looks like a good idea. The only problem it is that I have read that 
these kind of batteries  can fell down to 0% battery's level from high Voltage 
level, I mean, these batteries can sometimes fell down around 0% of battery's 
level with for example 1'5 Volts and sometimes fell down quickly from 2'5 
Volts, at least this is what I read about. Do you know anything about this?

     

    Anyway, thanks very much for your answer, I will use this method if nobody 
say something about the problem which I have talked about before.

     

    Regards

     

    David

     

     

     

    De: Arik [mailto:[email protected]] 
    Enviado el: martes, 27 de octubre de 2009 12:05
    Para: 'David Conde'; 'Nicola Bressan'
    CC: [email protected]
    Asunto: RE: [Tinyos-help] Battery Level for Telosb

     

    Hi David,

     

    I have a suggestion: 

     

    Step 1: connect a mote to a USB and check the current voltage. This is 100%.

     

    Step 2: connect to batteries. Make a program that sends the current voltage 
all the time. Besides that, add some computation, LEDs blinking and send as 
much messages as you can - to decrease the battery life.

    This way, when the battery dies - you will stop receiving the current 
voltage values. Then check the last value you have received - this is 0%.

     

    Now you can calculate the desired percentage J

     

    Good luck,

    Arik

     


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    From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Conde
    Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:41
    To: 'Nicola Bressan'
    Cc: [email protected]
    Subject: Re: [Tinyos-help] Battery Level for Telosb

     

    No it is ok, you helped my telling me about the InternalVoltage component, 
just I wondered if there is a relation between level battery to Voltage level 
because I do not know if there is some relation between them? The problem is 
that I am going to use it for critical systems which never can stop because of 
battery off, for this reason I need something which warns me that battery is 
going to be finished completly, before that the battery is actually OFF (0% of 
its level).I would like to have something which warns me when the battery's 
level is around 10% of its 100% level.

     

    Thanks in advance and thank Nicola for your answer

     

    Regards

     

    David

     

    De: Nicola Bressan [mailto:[email protected]] 
    Enviado el: martes, 27 de octubre de 2009 11:23
    Para: David Conde
    Asunto: Re: [Tinyos-help] Battery Level for Telosb

     


    I'm sorry but I don't succeed in answering to your questions because I'm 
not never me place the problem...
    I don't have more experience about this... I have confined to effect a 
periodic reading of the data....
    Sorry if I don't help you....

    Nicola

    2009/10/27 David Conde <[email protected]>

    Hi Nicola,

     

    Thank you for your answer.

     

    Do you mean that you use Msp430InternalVoltageC in order to get the level 
battery?But what is the function which relates battery level to voltage level 
from InternalVoltageC? For example, do you know what voltage from 
InternalVoltageC is equivalent to 10 % of full battery? I read about use 
InternalVoltage and people said that is not very reliable, because of level 
battery usually falls down much more faster as Internal Voltage does, so from 
your experience, do you usually use it in order to get a threshold for mínimum 
battery level, don't you?What is the voltage do you use as mínimum battery 
level?

     

    Thank you in advance

     

    David

     

     

     

    De: Nicola Bressan [mailto:[email protected]] 
    Enviado el: martes, 27 de octubre de 2009 11:02
    Para: David Conde
    Asunto: Re: [Tinyos-help] Battery Level for Telosb

     


    You can see the component Msp430InternalVoltageC(). I use this for read the 
Voltage/Battery Level and I think that is the correct value becouse i see that, 
when I use the battery the voltage is 2.5V but if I use the cable-USB the 
voltage is 2.97V

    Nicola

    2009/10/27 David Conde <[email protected]>

    Hi,

     

    I have read some information in TinyOS-help about how getting battery level 
from VoltageC components in Telosb, but I think there is not direct relation 
between the Voltage Level in TElosb and Battery level, I am sure that someone 
else has had the same need of getting the battery level in order to send an 
alarm message so batteries in Telosb can be swicthed each time that they are 
almost finish. How could I solve this problem?If there is no way to get the 
battery level from Telosb, how can I work around about this?Does it exist any 
sensor which can be integrated in Telosb to get the battery level as the same 
way as a mobile phone does it?Does it exist any electronic circuit to get the 
battery level?

     

    I am working with TinyOS 1.x and Telosb motes

     

    Thank you in advance

     

     


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