Read status of power supply on Motorshield v2

[tetsuwan]

Hello!

I'm putting my Arduino and Motorshield v2 in a closed box and therefore i can't see the green LED indicating a good power supply. Is there any way to get a readout from the motorshield to the Arduino instead?

Thanks!
//Mike

[adafruit_support_bill]

There are a couple of approaches:

You could wire a photo-sensor to the breadboard area and position it over the LED.
You could wire a voltage divider in the breadboard area to scale your motor power to a level that could be read via an analog pin.

What are you using for motor power?

[tetsuwan]

I'm using AA batteries at the moment. So yes, maybe a volt divider would be good. I will look into that!

Thanks