To be of any value it would need to be calculated over a reasonable time span to provide the user with feedback on how fast the battery will be discharged under current operating conditions. My guess is seconds to tens of seconds. But you should be able to get a pretty good idea when you do your testing. Maybe record videos of the cutting and real time VESC monitoring?
I understand the unwillingness to provide the schematic, but I don’t understand the lack of availability of interface descriptions and specifications for it.
Just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPsC1NDrViU and saw that the new boards have that 6pin header for the BitRunner which is where I assume we will need to interface to get the PWM output for the spindle. What are the technical specs of that header? At first I thought it might be a 6pin PCI-E power wire, but the notches do not look correct.
@LiamN I guess I was wrong about what he meant about fully automated.
OK, now I see the value of automatic on/off. Does (or will) Carbide Motion provide a user friendly speed control (in the GUI) too?
Awesome! If you turn on data logging, Excel can be used for analysis.
So I tried to connect my SuperGerbil controller HC-05 bluetooth module to the vesc UART to see if was possible to use the android app to log realtime data while overlaying it on a video. Turns out might need a different module.