Hello,
i bought the battery babysitter. It works wonderfully. But I would like to use shutdown mode and cannot find a keyword in the library. Is it possible to add that?
Thank you very much
Hello Maik19,
While that is a great suggestion the best way to get that request on our engineer’s plates is be filing a GitHub issue. Please file [one and our engineers will review as soon as they can.](Issues · sparkfun/Battery_Babysitter · GitHub)
Hi
Do you mean turning off the output voltage to 0?
I recently sent an e-mail for a problem; Although the battery is dead, the BB is still trying to energize the connected device.
The answer to this question: BB is only used for monitoring.
A new question has arisen in my head: Why is there a voltage output if it’s only going to monitor? Do you say that you just monitor with BB and somehow de-energize the main circuit?
As shown in the drawing below, if I connect my device and leave it like this, my lipo battery will die, right?
Yes, monitoring the battery is great, but isn’t it interesting that a circuit that needs to protect the battery doesn’t care?
It appears there isn’t any way to do a shutdown, there’s nothing on the board that has the ability to stop current flow from the battery.
You might be able to add a MOSFET and turn off the MOSFET to disconnect the battery when it’s low though.
Hello. I was going to use it for a solar panel system. Normally, it can stay open for 1 day with 1 18650 battery. When you add the sleep mode, it can stay open for 3-4 days. But what if the panels don’t see any sun for 1 week? I can change the sleep time according to the battery level. However, there will always be a risk of the battery dying.
The Battery Babysitter board doesn’t have a sleep mode, if you want to implement one you would need to do that on your microcontroller.