Dear technical team,
I am running some test for an own designed PCB using LTC4015. Everything looks fine, but the system is not able to charge batteries.
SYSTEM SPECS:
1) 12 cell lead acid configuration.
2) VIN = 29V
3) Rsnsi = Rsnsb = 3 miliohm
4) Stand by batteries voltage = approximately 26V
I am trying to run a charge test routine setting a voltage charge of 27.8 and a max current of 1A. Below I pasted the 74 register data for the LTC4015:
Address | Hex | Dec/Eng | Unit |
1 | 0x0 | 0 | |
2 | 0x0 | 0 | |
3 | 0x0 | 0 | |
4 | 0x0 | 0 | |
5 | 0x0 | 0 | |
6 | 0x0 | 0 | |
7 | 0x0 | 0 | |
8 | 0x0 | 0 | |
9 | 0x0 | 0 | |
10 | 0x0 | 0 | |
11 | 0x0 | 0 | |
12 | 0x0 | 0 | |
13 | 0x0 | 0 | |
14 | 0x0 | 0 | |
15 | 0x0 | 0 | |
16 | 0x0 | 0 | |
17 | 0x0 | 0 | |
18 | 0x0 | 0 | |
19 | 0x0 | 0 | |
20 | 0x10 | 16 | |
21 | 0x2F | 47 | |
22 | 0x0 | 0 | |
23 | 0x0 | 0 | |
24 | 0x0 | 0 | |
25 | 0x0 | 0 | |
26 | 0x2 | 2 | |
27 | 0x1A | 26 | |
28 | 0x889 | 2185 | |
29 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
30 | 0x0 | 0 | |
31 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
32 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
33 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
34 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
35 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
36 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
37 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
38 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
39 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
40 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
41 | 0x0 | 0 | |
42 | 0x8 | 8 | |
43 | 0x1518 | 5400 | |
44 | 0x0 | 0 | |
45 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
46 | 0xFFFF | 65535 | |
47 | 0x0 | 0 | |
48 | 0x0 | 0 | |
49 | 0x0 | 0 | |
50 | 0x0 | 0 | |
51 | 0x0 | 0 | |
52 | 0x200 | 512 | |
53 | 0x0 | 0 | |
54 | 0x0 | 0 | |
55 | 0x0 | 0 | |
56 | 0x0 | 0 | |
57 | 0x22C7 | 8903 | |
58 | 0x4239 | 26.08 | V |
59 | 0x44D9 | 29.05 | V |
60 | 0x44C6 | 29.01 | V |
61 | 0x21 | 0.016 | A |
62 | 0x67 | 0.05 | A |
63 | 0x3609 | 39.9 | °C |
64 | 0x2A70 | 9893 | Ohm |
65 | 0x0 | 0 | Ohm |
66 | 0x1 | 1 | |
67 | 0x88C | 2188 | |
68 | 0x2 | 1 | A |
69 | 0x22 | 27.89 | V |
70 | 0x2F | 8 | A |
71 | 0x4235 | 16949 | |
72 | 0x0 | 0 | A |
73 | 0x0 | 0 | |
74 | 0x1 | 1 |
Based in the status, system indicates a state of "absorb_charge", but power is not delivered. The measured voltage on the board is the same voltage reported for telemetry (shown in previous table)
During development phase, some I2C registers were written randomly. After that I re write them. For that reason some register has the value 0xFFFF. However I understand that registers are not used in lead acid mode.
Thanks in advance