Hamburger wrote:wilco1967 wrote:I noticed, in the latest dev, the powermeter does not work anymore.
The alarm value for the powermeter is not saved properly to eprom upon write it seems....
Wilco
yes, thank you.
This is a known bug. Alex has found the code at error and fixed this - we are awaiting integration in the dev version.
So it is safe to asume you are using the powermeter feature? May I ask whether you use the software version or run it with a hardware current sensor?
How exact is it for you, please?
Hi Hamburger,
Yes, I'm trying to use it..... Just managed yesterday to get a working led strip driver... The one from my flydusense board did not work properly. It only was able to drive a small led (which was almost impossible to see in flight). Now it is working properly with a different transistor (not flown with it yet).
From the few flight I made with it, the power meter seems pretty accurate.... MUCH better then waiting for the low voltage alarm.... I'm using the software version.
Some of my lipo's get very tired, so the low bat alarm comes on almost immediately. If you pull them down till the low voltage alarm, it's kind of late..... Also a high throttle burst will raise the low voltage alarm way before the lipo is 80% depleted, so it's good for a warning, but no accurate measure for used mAh. Your powermeter routine does a much better job at that !
One feature that would be nice, is different alarms (different blink patterns), based on various powermeter alarm levels. I fly different batteries, so need other settings for each battery....
The multiwii with lights code made by Mariano (mgros) is a nice start for what I have in mind.... I've tried it earlier, and it can create all kinds of patterns.... very nice.... I don't mind for stable mode on/off, but various powermeter settings would be perfect.... like one setting for a 1600 battery, one for a 2200, and one for a 3300.... you get the idea.
I've tried some small code modifications for this, but I'll need some practice... Long time ago since I did some programming.... Somewhere back in the 80's on a commodore 64 I think
No need to implement in the GUI... just hardcoded would do fine for me... Download takes only a few seconds, and once set, will not change anymore.