Orange Cube - Kore Carrier - Batt Voltage and Current Monitoring

[steveicus (Steven Vanni)]

I have a new Mission planner install (Mission Planner - v1.3.75.1 AND Arducopter v4.2.0 - Dev). I have config->planner->layout set to advanced. I am using a Orange Cube with Kore carrier board. I wanted to setup voltage and current monitoring. If I go to the Kore webage it gives specific parameters to set to do voltage and current measurements.

https://docs.cubepilot.org/user-guides/carrier-boards/kore-carrier-board#power
|Parameter|Value|
|BATT_AMP_OFFSET|0.45|
|BATT_AMP_PERVOLT|50|
|BATT_CURR_PIN|3|
|BATT_MONITOR|4|
|BATT_VOLT_MULT|15.3|
|BATT_VOLT_PIN|2|

This is nice, but I don’t have those parameters listed in my mission planner. Is there something I need to do to get these parameters listed?

[manavgandhi17 (Manav Gandhi)]

Have you enables the battery monitor via the battery monitor page? These params will only show up once the sensor has been enabled.

[steveicus (Steven Vanni)]

@manavgandhi17 looks like it. I also need to do a reboot, and now I see the variables.

Additionally, I had a negative current reading and followed @doug instructions to correct this and I am getting decent current numbers.

Negative Current Reading on Kore Carrier Board

I think i have found a reason, Yesterday i tried 3 different cubes with 5 different Kore boards With using brand new Kore boards rev 1.4. A (which has a sticker on it, newly bought ones) current reading is -3,7A, and -3,9A With using my old Kore boards rev 1.4.B (which i bought about 9 months ago) current reading is 0 and 0.1A I think there is a problem on current reading of rev A Kore boards. Interesting part is that i bought these guys recently.