IQ Equivalent of V5 Battery Medic?

VEX IQ General Discussion
1

I’ve used the V5 Battery Medic on our V5 batteries. Now I’d like to do some diagnostics on our Gen 1 and Gen 2 IQ batteries. Anyone know a way to do this? Maybe something similar to the V5 Battery Medic? Or another method entirely?

2

I do not think that such a thing exists. On the Vex IQ brain, you can see the remaining battery percentage, but there is nothing like the battery medic for IQ that I know of.

3

There isn’t a battry medic, but there are a few functions Vex has (at least for Python) that might work for a battry medic.

Library code 
    class Battery:
        '''### Battery class - access the brain battery

        #### Arguments:
            None

        #### Returns:
            Instance of Battery class

        #### Examples:
        '''
        def __init__(self):
            pass

        def capacity(self):
            '''### read remaining capacity of the battery

            #### Arguments:
                None

            #### Returns:
                capacity as percentage

            #### Examples:
            '''
            return 100

        def temperature(self, units: TemperaturePercentUnits = PercentUnits.PERCENT):
            '''### read the temperature of the battery (not available on IQ2)

            #### Arguments:
                units (optional) : PERCENT, CELSIUS or FAHRENHEIT, default is CELSIUS

            #### Returns:
                temperature in supplied units

            #### Examples:
            '''
            return 20

        def voltage(self, units = VoltageUnits.MV):
            '''### read the voltage of the battery

            #### Arguments:
                units (optional) : VOLTS or MV, default is MV

            #### Returns:
                voltage in supplied units

            #### Examples:
            '''
            return 12800

        def current(self, units = CurrentUnits.AMP):
            '''### read the current of the battery

            #### Arguments:
                units (optional) : AMP, default is mA but jot available as an enum.

            #### Returns:
                current in supplied units

            #### Examples:
            '''
            return 1
4

FYI, there is no temperature monitoring on IQ batteries, that’s just a compatibility function. We have voltage and current only (capacity is just based on voltage).

5

Hello! Team 28102S here, I have a pending post (I’ll put it on here if it gets approved.) about how I lost points because of an unreliable battery. An IQ battery medic would’ve been useful then!.

6

Unreliable Batteries - #3 by 5020C_c00lkid (my post :slight_smile:

7

what is a battery medic?

8

something you could have searched on

A diagnostic program for V5 batteries, we have no such tool for IQ batteries and no capability to communicate with them to retrieve this kind of information.
https://kb.vex.com/hc/en-us/articles/360035590212-Using-the-V5-Battery-Medic