{"id":912,"date":"2023-10-31T15:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=912"},"modified":"2023-10-31T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T04:41:34","slug":"using-the-toolkitrc-wm150-watt-meter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/?p=912","title":{"rendered":"Using the ToolkitRC WM150 Watt Meter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Watt Meter is a useful addition to your tool kit if you are using electric motors, servos, or Electronic Speed Controllers (ESCs). There are a few different types available, but for our purposes, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toolkitrc.com\/wm150\" target=\"_blank\">WM150<\/a>\u00a0from ToolkitRC is an affordable option. Specifically, a Watt Meter allows you to measure the current drawn from a power source, typically a battery, and calculate the power being dissipated. This is important because too much current will cause things to start melting and release the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_smoke\" target=\"_blank\">magic smoke<\/a>\u00a0from components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to measuring voltage, current, and power, the WM150 can drive a servo\/ESC directly. This is handy when you are not sure whether the servo or the microprocessor is causing a problem and for measuring servo power requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@reefwing\/using-the-toolkitrc-wm150-watt-meter-9bffd582f433\">full review of the WM150 Watt Meter on Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Watt Meter is a useful addition to your tool kit if you are using electric motors, servos, or Electronic Speed Controllers (ESCs). There are a few different types available, but for our purposes, the\u00a0WM150\u00a0from ToolkitRC is an affordable option. Specifically, a Watt Meter allows you to measure the current drawn from a power source, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_wp_convertkit_post_meta":{"form":"-1","landing_page":"0","tag":"0","restrict_content":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-robotics","7":"category-testing","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reefwing.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}