{"id":686,"date":"2017-10-11T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/?p=686"},"modified":"2017-10-09T23:12:15","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T22:12:15","slug":"mini-red-led-digital-voltmeter-3-3-30v-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/686\/mini-red-led-digital-voltmeter-3-3-30v-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Mini Red LED Digital Voltmeter 3.3-30V Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post reviews the mini red LED digital voltmeter. Here I review and test the voltmeter in a number of circumstances to see how well it works.<\/p>\n

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What can the voltmeter be used for<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>This voltmeter is a simple LCD display showing the current voltage. This is to be\u00a0used with a low to medium voltage circuit, rated at between 3.3 and 30 volts.<\/p>\n

The voltage range makes it perfect to keep track of the voltage used by small\u00a0circuits such as Arduino or Raspberry Pi electronics which typically operate on 5 volts\u00a0supply.<\/p>\n

One use of this is monitor the voltage in a battery. When using certain Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries it is important to ensure their voltage does not fall below the minimum voltage.<\/p>\n

To measure the current voltage of any component you place this in parallel\u00a0to it. Therefore to measure the voltage of a battery you connect the voltmeter to the positive and negative terminals of a battery.<\/p>\n

Using this you can keep an eye on the current voltage of your battery to ensure you do not discharge it past the recommended levels.<\/p>\n

Wiring it up to an Arduino<\/h2>\n

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Originally this item came with a stranded wire on the end.\u00a0This works well for permanent circuits soldered to a PCB but didn’t work well\u00a0with my prototyping breadboard. I improved its usability with a breadboard by soldering\u00a0some breadboard pins to the end and wrapping it in heatshrink. Here I used a\u00a0small burner to heat up the heat shrink to insulate the wire.<\/p>\n

Once this was accomplished I was able to use it on a breadboard much more easily.\u00a0The breadboard pins work a lot better to push it into the breadboard.<\/p>\n

Using this I was able to measure the voltage across a number of components while working with the breadboard and Arduino.<\/p>\n

The advantage of using this is that you can permanently monitor the voltage of a circuit. The LCD display works well both under light or in the dark as it is relatively bright.<\/p>\n

Final Review<\/h2>\n

With the ease of being able to attach the device to both a breadboard and PCB this digital display works well for low voltage circuits. I would definitely\u00a0recommend this sensor to add to any project requiring a display of the voltage of a battery or component.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post reviews the mini red LED digital voltmeter. Here I review and test the voltmeter in a number of circumstances to see how well it works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97],"tags":[132,178],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronics","tag-arduino","tag-voltmeter"],"wppr_data":{"cwp_meta_box_check":"No"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/voltmeter-post-icon.jpg?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2toWX-b4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":971,"url":"https:\/\/chewett.co.uk\/blog\/971\/review-youtumall-usb-multimeter\/","url_meta":{"origin":686,"position":0},"title":"Review of the\u00a0Youtumall USB Multimeter","author":"Chewett","date":"January 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This post reviews the\u00a0Youtumall USB Multimeter. 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