WIFI Kit 32 Battery to ADC connection

[garthberry]

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Is there any kind of connection between the battery and one of the ADC pins for monitoring battery level?

[seaser0]

I have the same question. @garthberry: Do you figured it out?

[seaser0]

I was running some test and it seams to be A4. When I connect a full LiPo the analog read function shows values around 500 and it will drop below 100 when the battery is empty. I hope that helps.

[garthberry]

@seaser0 I performed the same test with a bench power supply connected to the battery terminal and I can confirm that out of A1-A7, A4 is the only one that reflects the change in battery voltage. The minimum voltage seems to be about 3.3v, anything less and the analog read function returns 0.

At a guess I would say there is a voltage divider connected between the battery + and A4 pin. @Heltec-Aaron-Lee Any chance the schematics could be made available somewhere?

[kovir]

sorry for a dumb question.... A4 - which PIN number is this? ( I can't see A4 on pinout diagram) thanks Marcel

[seaser0]

According to this diagram A4 (or ADC1_4) corresponds to GIPO 32.

Heltec Wifi Kit 32 Pinout Diagram: http://esp32.net/images/Heltec/WIFI-Kit-32/Heltec_WIFI-Kit-32_DiagramPinout.jpg

[walterheisenberg]

Has anyone code for micropython to read the battery level? vcc = machine.ADC(machine.Pin(32)) vcc.read() does not work reliable and gave me values from 500 to under 100 in one minute the 1000mAh battery is connected with the JST-connector and I'm connected via webrepl

[mwargan]

@walterheisenberg have you figured it out? My readings are all over the place too :/

[christiangda]

Heltec Schematic

• https://heltec-automation-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/esp32+arduino/frequently_asked_questions.html#vext-control

Voltage divisor with n-fet

• https://fettricks.blogspot.com/2014/01/reducing-voltage-divider-load-to-extend.html

Good discussion about that

• https://hackaday.io/project/27791-esp32-lora-oled-module/log/69600-battery-voltage-measurement