Battery State of Charge Meter

 Here's a simple project that indicates how much energy is remaining in your batteries.
It's a gauge for lead-acid batteries, It’s an LED bar graph voltmeter with a scale it starts at less then 11.5 volts up to 16 volts.
I have it hooked up to my solar battery bank so I can tell how much its charging when its sunny out to how much it has left when I’m using the batteries.
I also made the case that it sits in with my new 3d printer lol.
I will be posting the files if you would like to print your own case also will put case up on thing-a-verse
lets start with a parts list they should be very easy to find parts i had to only buy the leds since it takes 11 of them but get 12 and burn one for the led god for good luck lol.

Parts List
Integrated Circuits
U1- 7805, 5VDC, 1A. Voltage
Regulator
U2- LM 3914N, LED Bar/Dot Driver

Diodes
D1- 1N4002, 1 A. Silicon
D2- 1N5241B, 11VDC Zener
D3-Amber LED indicates 16.0 VDC
D4- Amber LED indicates 15.5 VDC
D5- Amber LED indicates 15.0 VDC
D6- Green LED indicates 14.5 VDC
D7- Green LED indicates 14.0 VDC
D8- Green LED indicates 13.5 VDC
D9- Green LED indicates 13.0 VDC
D10- Green LED indicates 12.5 VDC
D11- Green LED indicates 12.0 VDC
D12- Amber LED indicates 11.5 VDC
D13- Red LED indicates <11.5 VDC

Resistors
R1- 390, 1/4W.
R2- 820, 1/2W.
R3- 1.4k, 1/4W.
trimmer potentiometerR4- 10k

Miscellaneous items
On/off switch your choice
A connection bus for the outside of your case if you use a case again your choice
Didn’t think I was going to make an instructable. so I didn’t make a step by step guide
If there is enough of an interest I will make one.
Have fun be safe