Electronic – arduino – Coin Cell Battery for Arduino/Microcontroller

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Excuse the lack of electrical engineering knowledge but I have an Arduino Uno microcontroller that I want to power with a coin cell battery.

The project will have 6 LED lights that will flash for a few seconds every few hours.
My question is, what sort of coin cell battery would I need for this project? Also, how would I connect it to arduino? With something like this?

Would I require anything like resistors/transistors?

Here is a diagram of what I have so far:

diagram of what I have so far.

(Resistors are 1/4-watt 200ohm resistors)

Best Answer

The Arduino Uno isn't fit to run off a coin cell.

  1. The Uno isn't exactly low-power. It contains 2 microcontrollers running at high clock frequencies and consumes a couple tens of mA

  2. A coin cell will give you 3 V, while the Uno is designed to run on 5 V.

  3. Most important: a coin cell has enough energy to power the Arduino for a couple of hours, but can only supply this in small doses, i.e. a few mA. That won't work.