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Single multi-color 3mm or 5mm LED battery status indicator?

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I'm looking for a battery status indicator :

1) full (green), medium (blue), and near empty (red) using a single RGB LED.
2) The setup would be small enough to be mounted inside a host with the LED sticking out a small hole.
3) It would be hooked-up between the on-off button and the driver.
4) It would be for a 2 lithium batteries in-series setup.

Is there such a device?
 





farbe2

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I did design a driver with a encoder interface, RGB led output and 3 driver outputs. It displays the battery state with the encoder LED.
I also made a board that does not include any drivers. It could be used to control a blackbuck 8m.
This can also dimm, strobe, flash your laser and also includes a temperature protection.
I showed it extensively in my RGB laser build.


But you can use it for single color only if you want. I could build it custom with only one driver fitted and the modes you want. This would lower the cost.
 

farbe2

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Sadly the LM3914/15 is obsolete, I used to build VU meters with it.

I would recommend a small attiny uC for this. Internal ADC + 2 pins for led Pwm.
A sot-23-6 case would be really small.
 

kecked

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bummer that was one of my go to chips. Got that out of the forest mem books when I was a kid. Yea a micro can work too. I think analog for this stuff but why not Go digital. You can add other features too like blinking. My other go to was the 4066 bilateral switch. Now I use the dg302 series in it‘s place.
 
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Spectrum LiPo Battery Monitor HV​

$29.95​

Height - 15mm, Width - 15mm, Length - 30mm
 




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