I managed to finish the assembly of the balancing cards today and I installed them seamlessly on the battery modules. The result is really cool. Performance tests are in progress.
General view of the 10 kWh string:
Each (70-element) module is equipped with a balancing card placed on top of it. This card continuously measures the module voltage and starts to dissipate power whenever the module voltage crosses a certain limit (can be setup up to 4.2 Volts).
A close up on the modules
The first things to notice are the "large" 60 x 60 x 10 mm fans. Thanks to them, each module is capable of a 50 watt continuous power dissipation. The square components with a black on white hexadecimal figure on them are the BlueTooth Low Energy modules (Zentri AMS001). Each BMS card is managed by an NXP LPC824 Cortex M0+ microcontroller featuring a very clean 12 bit ADC, among many other cool things.
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Hello Michel, it is an amazing project and I would like to learn from it!
I like such Designers like You!
It is a similar way, like I do...
Best Regards from Switzerland
Otto Winter
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