Battery balancing is crucial in various applications that use multi-cell battery packs: Electric vehicles (EVs): Battery balancing ensures optimal EV battery packs’ performance, range, and longevity. Renewable energy storage: Large-scale battery systems for solar and wind energy storage benefit from efficient balancing.
Number of cells: The balancing system becomes more complex with the number of cells in the battery pack. Balancing method: Choose active and passive balancing techniques based on the application requirements. Balancing current: Determine the appropriate balancing current to achieve efficient equalization without compromising safety.
needs two key things to balance a battery pack correctly: balancing circuitry and balancing algorithms. While a few methods exist to implement balancing circuitry, they all rely on balancing algorithms to know which cells to balance and when. So far, we have been assuming that the BMS knows the SoC and the amount of energy in each series cell.
Battery cell balancing brings an out-of-balance battery pack back into balance and actively works to keep it balanced. Cell balancing allows for all the energy in a battery pack to be used and reduces the wear and degradation on the battery pack, maximizing battery lifespan. How long does it take to balance cells?
Battery balancing cannot fix a completely dead or damaged cell. Balancing equalizes charge levels among functional cells. If a cell is severely degraded or has failed, you may need to replace it to restore the battery pack’s performance.
Imbalanced cells lock away otherwise usable energy and increase battery degradation. Batteries that are out of balance cannot be fully charged or fully discharged, and the imbalance causes cells to wear and degrade at accelerated rates. This reduces both the revenue of every cycle and the lifespan of the battery.