Hexacopter Drone Build Project – Part 12 Tattu 12s DroneCAN Smart Battery

Welcome to the next installment of my Drone Electronics Prototyping series! In this video, I'll be continuing with the bench prototyping for the drone by configuring a Tattu 12s Smart Battery. Tattu Plus batteries with AS150U connectors support DroneCAN which allows the autopilot to retrieve the battery’s total voltage, individual cell voltages, current, temperature and percentage of remaining capacity. Follow along as I wire up the connection to the CAN bus, use Mission Planner to configure the Cube Orange flight controller to read the battery telemetry, and finally verify the results in the ground station.

For detailed documentation and materials list, visit my GitHub repository: https://github.com/timarcher/Drone

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
4:04 Battery and Charger Overview
17:13 Battery DroneCAN Electrical Connections
29:00 ArduPilot Configuration
43:00 Viewing Battery Telemetry in Mission Planner