Hello everyone. Please point me to right direction on how to program this IC ( ina3221) I`m working on a big DIY project and one of the aspect to make battery low voltage cut off. My batteries are LTO, and battery control circuits are expensive. I came up with a plan to use Ina 3221 and latching relay to make low power adjustable battery cut off. On one forum i read that it could be done by using arduino
star1k:
Please point me to right direction on how to program this IC ( ina3221)
I came up with a plan to use Ina 3221 and latching relay to make low power adjustable battery cut off. On one forum i read that it could be done by using arduino
"I would use the ATMega chip from an Arduino Uno, or the Arduino itself.
Just use a library. Try Googling "Arduino INA3221 library".
Libraries usually come with examples.
Most charging boards have bidirectional mosfet switches to do that.
There is also the Nano (USB<>serial interface) and the ProMicro (no USB).
Leo..
Wawa:
Just use a library. Try Googling "Arduino INA3221 library".
Libraries usually come with examples.
Most charging boards have bidirectional mosfet switches to do that.
There is also the Nano (USB<>serial interface) and the ProMicro (no USB).
Leo..
Thank you for your answer. It definitely brought me closer to my goal
Ina 3221 arduino library programmed only to read values and after some manipulations on raw data prints values.
This circuit ( ina3221) originally designed to do quite opposite - measure current and voltage on 3 channels - but it has feedback ( actualy 4 modes of feed back : Critical, Warning,
PV (power valid), and TC (timing control) and i want to access those functions : i.e. read register values, change them when arduino boots up ( values are volitile) and use it as a customizable battery protection circuit.
Update : using raspberry pi i was able to access register and successfully read them via i2c utility. Now i just need to figure out proper values to program it, and later how to do it using arduino ( probably using wire liabrary).
any additional help will be appreciated.
star1k:
Hello everyone. Please point me to right direction on how to program this IC ( ina3221) I`m working on a big DIY project and one of the aspect to make battery low voltage cut off. My batteries are LTO, and battery control circuits are expensive. I came up with a plan to use Ina 3221 and latching relay to make low power adjustable battery cut off. On one forum i read that it could be done by using arduino
There is only one library I am trying to expand to enable all the functions that this controller has. I have it modified to hold three independent readings
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