Correctly Measure Battery Level - MAX17048 (ESP32 + Arduino series)

Published 2021-05-20
Battery-powered IoT projects require you to monitor your battery's percentage. Measuring battery voltage is not ideal, because the voltage doesn't drop linearly.

Fuel gauges are a better alternative. They work straight away, don't consume power while in standby, and they're accurate without any calibration!

Buy a Battery Fuel Gauge from DFRobot:
www.dfrobot.com/product-1734.html?tracking=6099f25…
(They kindly provided me with this sensor)

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(Everything you need to know about programming the ESP32 by using the Arduino Framework)

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All Comments (21)
  • @piconano
    Watched all 26 videos in this play list. This series is the best ESP32 tutorial on YT. Thanks for all your hard work. Cheers.
  • @dhruv_195
    Was looking all over the internet for something like this, thanks the video was of great help.
  • @souerico
    Great content! I'd love to see more videos about bateries!
  • @tritile
    The best series for arduino programers starting on esp32
  • @mrafayshams3089
    Please add more videos to this series. AWS IoT and Esp32 and Javascript control would be ideal.
  • @stark9397
    Wonderful. Please come more videos about ESP32.
  • @shanebekker
    Great content. Subbed. Want to know though how you coded an ESPHome module for this?
  • Thanks for the video. I believe the statement that ' it works accurately without feeding characteristics of battery is actually not correct '. Correct me if i am wrong though. Every battery fuel guage has to be fed with battery characteristics you are using.
  • hey.. Thanks for your many videos... I will love if you did a video > What is DEFI hope you will do that..
  • Can i use this to 12v car battery or solar battery? Thanks, nice video Sir
  • Great Tutorial! I have a question, is it possible to measure a package li-ion battery of 36v? Meaning for example a 10s4p stack.
  • @tcl78
    It is now several months that there are no new videos published in this playlist, do you think you will publish more videos? They are very useful and it would be greatly appreciated. One topic (or whole playlist) you could cover is how to develop for ESP32 without using the Arduino Framework but using whatever native library ESP32 uses.
  • @iamfyrus
    Connect batt+ to A0 and use batterysense library.
  • @thaolyinh90
    i hope you will make a video about Defi Warrior
  • @very_nice_777
    Can you make a video about connect a 16x2 liquid crystal video that is given with the Arduino Starter pack? Thanks man. Love your videos.