Monitoring Charging

Hi,
I designed a charging unit. I want to charge 32 different sensors. I am using arduino nano to display charge status on each of its sensors. I do this as described below:
I use 4 different arduinos and they all have a common ground.
I determine the current according to the voltage passing over 1 ohm and I determine the charge state accordingly.
While doing this, the pins up to the A0-A8 pin, the charge GND of the sensor, and one leg of the 1 ohm resistor are common; The other leg of the resistor is on the common GND leg of both the system and the arduino.

My problem here is that although I see that the current value does not change when measuring with a multi meter, I am measuring the current value incorrectly that I read on the arduino when all the sensors are installed here. But this problem does not occur with fewer sensors. I need your help on why the problem occurs and how I can fix it.
I can retell for more information and unclear areas.
Kind regards,

Text is a very poor way to describe electronic circuits - that's why we have schematics (aka "circuit diagrams")

Please show a schematic of your setup.

So what kind of voltage are you trying to measure? An Arduino's analogue inputs are not very sensitive...

You would be better to use Current Sense Amplifiers (CSAs)...

What is the sensor's supply voltage? How much current does each sensor draw when charging is first started?

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Charging sensors????? Never heard of that before. Please post a link to that "sensor" datasheet, a technical manual or similar.

Likewise!

I guess "sensor" is being used here to mean a unit with a rechargeable battery and other electronics - as well as the actual transducer itself?
:thinking:

Word(sallad) often gives very mixed messages, as You already indicated above.
A picture tells more than a thousand words is an old, well known expression. A picture of a wiring diagram...
Novels as well as mountains of code takes a lot of time and effort to penetrate and helpers might not hook on to such presentations.
Why is code documentation never presented? Flow charts is a greate help getting the main stream in reasonable order, gives an overview...

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