Hi. I see there is a status display for up to 6 cells on the MP status page. Is there currently a system to read the cell volts somehow?
Im following the discussions about getting the FrSky FLVSS lipo monitor to talk directly to the pixhawk (not just passthrough). Any more progress on this please?
Its far more important to know the lowest cell voltage than the total pack. Hope there is a way to sort this.
Smart batteries
Shame the FLVSS cant talk in SMBus. Seems its so close to whats needed but not quite there.
what does it talk?
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What we really need is a canbus battery cell monitor. @philip I’m just dreaming. Sometimes dreams come true?
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Yes…,
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We use this in automotive EV batteries.
Often a Linear (maker not technique) chip to read each cell voltage, a PIC to convert these many values to a single data stream then squirt that into a CAN transceiver chip (Microchip MC2551 for example)
Job done 
Just need a technology company to build this for the UAV market
Interested @philip ???
Cheers
Steve
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