BMS Discussion

Before going this way we looked at a number of options and explored many technical resources. Here is some of that information:

• EVDL discussion on how much energy must be moved by a balancer http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html#nabble-td15897129
• Available BMS Systems (commercial and otherwise)
• LED Darlington Clamper
• CAN Bus introduction
• CANopen
• High Level Requirements
• EVTech wiki (we could perhaps move our project there)
• Ongoing thread on a BMS system surviving noise introduced by the PFC-30 battery charger.
• Discussion of welding many cells together vs larger cells
  • Lee Hart
  • Lee Hart
  • Victor Tikhonov
  • Lee Hart
  • Victor Tikhonov
  • Lee Hart
  • Lee Hart reports a fire during BMS failure mode testing of an A123 series parallel pack
  • Brad Baylor reports an analysis of Hybrid's Plus Plug in Prius fire
  • Neon John comments on Hybrid's Plus Plug in Prius fire
• Hybrids Plus made an A123 based Plug in Prius conversion. It caught fire due to many loose connections caused in part from improper assembly. Lots of interesting lessons in battery pack design.
• Maxim application note on charging batteries