Am posting this here instead of in the modder's forum because, as a noob, this is the only place I am permitted to post. I am a noob mainly because I have been reading, not posting, so as to not clutter up the place. Anyway, I have a question about a mod component... I want to build a mod that has one tri-color LED that works like a battery fuel gauge "idiot light". I want the LED to display one color for "the battery is more-or-less full", another color for "the battery is about halfway used up", and a third color for "recharge now before it gets too low". I don't know how to do this. Provided that I misspell "guage" on purpose, I see a whole page of things that are battery fuel gauges: PMIC - Battery Management | Digi-Key However, I don't have the knowledge to know which (if any) of them might be most appropriate. I also don't know what additional components are required to make such things work with an LED. While I can find tricolor LED's, they all seem to be RGB. I would prefer one that has amber instead of blue (for "traffic light" color coding). I want to be able to implement this for a few different mods. I want to make one that is just a plain-ole-3.7, another that is 3.7 boosted to 5v, another that is 6v regulated down to 5v, and one that is a variable-voltage mod. I want to be able to do it for both single batteries and for double batteries. If anyone here can clue me in, I will be in your debt. And when I say "clue me in", that pretty much means talking to me like I'm an idiot. (I know next-to-nothing about electronics but am mostly trainable, and have made simple boxmods with zero difficulty.) thanks... ps: I seem to be unable to format this into discrete paragraphs rather than just 1 too-large blob of text... what am I doing wrong?
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