Part Number:BQ76920
Hello,
We are using the BQ76920 in a 4-cell LiFePo4 Battery-System and in general it works very smoothly
But now I've now come across 2 battery's where the cell-voltage measurement is so far off, that it startet to affect our balancing.
In times it was a little more off than what the datasheet defines as maximum (50mV) even though the temperature is approc 22°C and the measurement should be more accurate. The main Problem is, that one cell is off with +50mA and the other with -50mA with leads to an error of total 100mV in regards to the balancing criterias.
Time/SoC | Mulitmeter | BQ | Difference |
Cell1 | Cell2 | Cell3 | Cell4 | Cell1 | Cell2 | Cell3 | Cell4 | Cell1 | Cell2 | Cell3 | Cell4 |
13:10 / 99 | 3.511 | 3.575 | 3.487 | 3.575 | 3.541 | 3.541 | 3.541 | 3.524 | -0.03 | 0.034 | -0.054 | 0.051 |
14:30 / 34 | 3.267 | 3.262 | 3.272 | 3.268 | 3.283 | 3.25 | 3.299 | 3.244 | -0.016 | 0.012 | -0.027 | 0.024 |
15:36 / 6 | 3.229 | 3.229 | 3.232 | 3.228 | 3.25 | 3.223 | 3.263 | 3.212 | -0.021 | 0.006 | -0.031 | 0.016 |
16:15 / - | 3.31 | 3.31 | 3.311 | 3.309 | 3.335 | 3.33 | 3.346 | 3.286 | -0.025 | -0.02 | -0.035 | 0.023 |
When I did a cycle with the battery (after the cells were individually fully charged) I got the following result:
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Since the cells are all equally charged, they should all roughly follow the same line, but because of the measurement-error they are running in parallel.
We are now working on a solution to calibrate the voltage-measurement on a single cell-level with an offset when the battery is assembled.
I've also seen the method in the datasheet to improve accuracy, but since the total pack-voltage is ok, it would not have a big enough impact to improve the accuracy of the cells.
In general I would like to check if there are any errors within our schematic? I also noticed, that there is a voltage-drop of approx. the measurement error over the resistors R113-R116. There was no current and the balancing was inactive a the time. Is this voltage-drop, positive and negative depending on the measurement-error, normal?
Now that I started looking I also noticed those voltage drops on all batterys.
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Thank you for any feedback.
Best regards,
Cedric