Echo G

BatMon v4 released One of the main challenges faced with BatMon was the installation overhead. Installing BatMon v3 took over an hour on a new battery pack. Second challenge was the cost overhead of a BMS system on each battery. We have reduced…

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BatMon enabled Smart Battery available for purchase

You can now buy BatMon enabled smart batteries off the website, saving you the engineering time for assembling your own. BatMon enabled batteries can talk with Ardupilot, Pixhawk, Arduino and ROS. BatMon enables safe and robust operation of robot…

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Customizable open source smart charger (2-12s) : BatCha

We built BatMon for making smart batteries. BatMon can now talk with Ardupilot, Pixhawk, and ROS and enables safe and robust operation of robot using smart batteries. But there is a missing piece, a smart charger that can safely charge batteries…

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BatMon v3 , smartify your battery with SMBUS, CAN and LIN bus

BatMon is a module that connects to you batteries to "smartify" them. BatMon reads the cell voltage, current and relays it to autopilot or the onboard computers. We made a quite a bit of improvements in the latest v3 devkit. The most important is…

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post Batmon: Pixhawk compatible, in-flight battery monitors with LED display

"We have launched the online store for batmon at rotoye.com now"

Echo G replied to Hamilton From Above's discussion We Need a "Smart Battery"

"You can check out BatMon at http://rotoye.com/"

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post EDIT: Get assembled smart batteries on Kickstarter Campaign

"https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/batmon/batmon-smartify-your-dr..."

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EDIT: Get assembled smart batteries on Kickstarter Campaign

UPDATEWe have some good news. A battery manufacturer Titan Power is working with BatMon kickstarter backers to assemble BatMon into Lithium Ion batteries for free! Backers also get a 5% discount on Titan batteries upto $1000 purchase. Now, you can…

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post The Dumb-Battery Era is Over

"Batmons do not have an electronic safety cutoff. It relies on the autopilot to make the decision to land/cutoff power based on the state-of-charge data provided by Batmon"

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Thinking about designing multirotors to optimizing flight time

Designing electric multicopters for a specific flight time is a complex multidisciplinary optimization problem. This short blog post is some of my thoughts on how to think about this problem. Obviously, there so many different ways of doing this and…

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post The Dumb-Battery Era is Over

"You can PM me for ordering a battery. "

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post The Dumb-Battery Era is Over

"Its an XT90 variant"

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post The Dumb-Battery Era is Over

"We've not had issues with I2C"

Echo G commented on Echo G's blog post The Dumb-Battery Era is Over

"Hi Thomas,

We have the "smart battery monitor" developed already
Battery alarms aren't good enough enough for accurate battery estimate"

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The Dumb-Battery Era is Over

Over the past couple of months, we have been working on a "smartification kit" to obtain accurate state of charge for Lithium batteries. Currently most systems use voltage based capacity estimation which is inaccurate and make it hard for flyers…