Im trying to test the duration of a lipo battery pack rated at 3.7V. I want to use it to power a nano and a servo that will spin for about 5 seconds every hour.
Im thinking of connecting the battery+ to a rail on the breadboard along with a connection to Vin on the nano and then battery- to the GND on both the nano and the servo. Does that seem ok?
So as you can see here, on the far left rail of the mini breadboard there is no nano pin, so its free. Ive connected:
batt-
nano gnd
servo gnd
and on the far right rail which is also free (no nano pins on it), I have connected:
OK well I remember something about the barrel jack and usb cable power having a component that drops the power down by about 12v but the Vin doesn't have that. So if I feed in 7.4V to the Vin I could mess it up, right?
Marciokoko:
OK well I remember something about the barrel jack and usb cable power having a component that drops the power down by about 12v but the Vin doesn't have that. So if I feed in 7.4V to the Vin I could mess it up, right?
I run Nano's on 9V. The servo will need a minimum of 5V and a max of 6V. 7.4V will toast the servo
Vin pin connects the input voltage to LDO Regulator so you need to connect it to 5v pin remember that there is no reverse voltage protection or short circuit protection in there so its not recommended but i have used this technic before and it is ok if you be careful.
Mark but in that diagram the related 5v from lm7805 is going to the servo but not to the nano isn't it? Wouldn't the lm7805 need to be before the Vin on the nano?
Marciokoko:
Mark but in that diagram the related 5v from lm7805 is going to the servo but not to the nano isn't it? Wouldn't the lm7805 need to be before the Vin on the nano?
No. The Nano runs on 7.4V and the servo runs on the 5V. If you look at the specs of the nano the input voltage Vin is between 7V and 12V. It will not run with 5V on Vin
