15-12-2015, 20:52
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Re: Read Battery Charger status from a device.
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Originally Posted by ceb515
Probably the easiest thing to do would be cracking open the case of the chargers, and soldering wires to both sides of the LED's, soldering the common ground and using digital inputs on an arduino to sense the LED state.
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That would be ok if you only want a boolean, charged or not charged. I assumed the OP wanted a numeric value of how charged the batteries are. Maybe I could be wrong.
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