Hello there im new on this forum and i wanted to ask for help in a project of mine, i'm trying to calculate a lithium ion batery capacity with a arduino. The idea is to use a drain circuit in order to discharge the battery and calculate it's capacity.

I have a schematic for my project down here but i have a problem, MATH...
I need to know the math behind mAh of a battery if anyone knows plz tell me i'm stuck here for a time and i can't find any good explanations in google

Thanks everybody

 

It's not math, it is arithmetic. Capacity is the product of current and time, or milliamperes times hours. You should remember that it is unwise to discharge a Lithium battery all the way. When fully charged they measure about 3.8 volts. By the time they get to 3.0 V they are ready to fall of a cliff. Check out Battery University for an in depth discussion of the discharge characteristics. The discharge rate should be about 0.1 times the maximum charging rate.

 

My first project was to make a power bank for my phone using lithium ion battery's 18650 e bought a step up and step down for charging and discharging the batterys but then i got the idea of testing batterys bought in ebay because of scams about true and false mah

Can you please advise me on what should i do to discharge and measure the batterys, I'm using a 3.5 ohm 10w resistor(just to be sure ) and 2.2 ohm mosfet plus the 18650 battery

At maximum voltage i have less than 1 amp on the resistor

is this ok ? can you explain me a bit more about that 0.1 times the maximum charging rate?

 

It would be better if you did some reading here

http://batteryuniversity.com/
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/charging_lithium_ion_batteries
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/what_is_the_c_rate

 

I'll be reading it tomorrow thanks