So as I promised in the previous post, this post is regarding the making of a 48 V battery and how it is interfaced with a Battery Management System. So what is a battery management system or a BMS and what are the functions associated with it ? Battery Management System (BMS) A Battery Management System is any circuit that tries to manage a rechargeable battery by making sure it is maintained to operate in its safe operational region, by collecting data about the operations in the battery, by controlling the conditions it is surrounded by, and by reporting this data. The next question is why a BMS is considered to be a mandate in the case of Li-ion battery ? The answer is simple. A Li-ion battery if not operated at it's safe operational ranges can prove to be hazardous. This is the reason why a BMS is considered as a mandate in the case of a Li-ion battery. So why not go f
How the ignition started..... So we were in our third year when the ignition started. We were not into any of the projects nor did we know what our fields of interest were. We luckily got Prof. Parag Jose as our faculty in charge for the subject Electric Mobility, and he later on, along with Prof. Haneesh sir, went on to become our guides. As i said, we were not into any projects back then, but all three of us really wanted to do a project together and all three of us shared the common interest in the field of EV's. That is when we approached Parag Sir and he guided us to the field of EV and we started of with our prototype of load sharing of split parallel HEV and BMS system. Split parallel HEV Why HEV ? So for understanding this, one needs to understand what an HEV is. An HEV is basically a car that can run on both IC engine and an electric motor. So based on when and how it can be operated it is classified into series hybrid, parallel hybrid and split parallel