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Battery Capacity Tester

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Battery Capacity Tester

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vescripuon This is a simple, cheap, standalone battery capacity tester from Ebay (around $5). It connects to the battery and a load resistor, and dra power from a microUSB connector (no communications to the computer, just power). It draws power from the battery until a predetermined discharge termination voltage is reached, whence it displays the integrated Ampere-hours (Ah) of battery capacity (its a pity that Ah is the accepted unit rather than Volt-Ampere-seconds, a.k.a Joules). The Ebay description is hard to understand, so | edited it into more conventional English. All errors therefore are mine—| am uncertain about the details in the calibration section, for instance External load resistor (7.5.0) + Power supply voltage: DC4 5-6V (micro USB interface) Working current: less than 7OmA4 Measured battery voltage: 1.00¥-15.00¥, resolution 0.01V Automatically selected termination voltage, depending on the initial charged cell voltage (range: 0.5-11.0V) Maximum current 34, resolution 0.001A The maximum measurement error voltage: 1% +- 0.03V. The maximum measurement error of current: 2% +- 9.0104 The maximum battery capacity range: 0.001Ah..9999Ah (values lower than 10Ah are displayed as X.XXX; values between 104h and 99.99Ah are displayed as XX.XX, and so on) + Board size: 50mm long by 36mm wide, by 17mm high, including standoffs Note: in order to improve the voltage measurement accuracy, the circuit applies a DC bias. The display may show a small residual value, which does not affect the actual measurement. Usage instructions 1. Measured battery should be fully charged sted battery observing the polarity (+ terminal on the P: }. Reversing The Polarity May Damage The é o USB ca 2. Connect to te positiv Cireuit! Conn The dis ster via the ot the operating hould indicate the batter Start test by p uitabl and flash it 3 ti 1¥ incremer The termination vo e changed Be erat Se ot 2 SPUREESE he "+ or © keys, The termination voltage is displayed with a leading P character During testing, the electronic switch connects the load resistor, and the esting data are displayed in sequence, as shown by the LED indicator. « the integrated capacity (Ah), 2 instantaneous discharge: am The error codes ert the battery voltage higher than 15V En the battery voltage is lower than the setting voltage termination En the battery is unable to withstand the load discharge current (either the internal battery resistance or connectat/cable resistance is too large} Err: the current is too large (current is more than 3.1A) Calibration Apply USB power and simultaneously press all three buttons to enter the calibration mode and perform the following steps 1, The first calibration step after entering the calibration displays the QU0A; short connect both positive and negative input terminal and press the "OK button, 2. Next, the display will show J1Gu; apply 10.00¥ DC between the input positive and negative terminal and press the "OK" button again 3. The display will show J2.0A; apply 2.0 A DC current between the input terminals and press the "OK button to complete the calibration. If the tester determines that the calibration data is reliable, itwill in tum show 4 calibration numbers after completing the procedure; otherwise it will ignore the calibration attempt. discard the data and exit the procedure.

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