Bat: Battery Functions

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The battery functions are used for monitoring the on-board battery and control of the battery charger.

	•batChargerEnable	Enables/disables the charging off the internal battery pack.
	•batIsCharging	Queries the status on fast (rapid) charging.
	•batVoltageIsLow	Queries the status on the battery voltage.
	•batModuleMounted	Queries whether a battery module is mounted.
	•batPowerLevel	Returns the power level of the internal battery pack.

The battery consumption functions allow the program to interact with the battery power consumption circuit found on the RTCU SX1 series.

The power consumption circuit measures the current consumed from the battery with the following functions:

	•batConsumption	Queries the current battery consumption.
	•batConsumptionAvg	Queries the average battery consumption.
	•batConsumptionClear	Resets the average and total battery consumption.
	•batConsumptionEnable	Controls the battery current consumption measurement module.
	•batConsumptionTotal	Queries the total battery consumption.