Peri Hartman via EV wrote:
The BMS for each cell would normally be quiet and only send something when
prompted by a central BMS component.
I think it is important to consider just what you want a BMS to do.
- Is it just there to provide feedback on what each cell is doing?
(battery MONITORING system)
- Is it there to actively balance cells?
(battery BALANCING system)
- Is it a safety system, there to prevent damage and fires?
(battery SAFETY system)
These are three very different devices, with completely different design
requirements.
When you talk about systems with a computer on every cell, and CAN bus
networking with TCP/IP, you're talking about a Monitoring system. It's
supposed to provide accurate real-time data on things like cell
voltages, currents, and temperatures. It probably needs a fancy display
(blinkinlights), and data logging (pretty charts and graphs).
Such a system is necessarily complicated, with correspondingly high cost
and low reliability. It will need hundreds, perhaps thousands of parts,
and so have many failure modes. Given the heavy dependence on software,
it will be nearly impossible to predict what happens when it fails.
And, it's going to be the exact opposite of a safety system.
Lee Hart
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