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BQ51050B: Transmitter not recognizing

Part Number: BQ51050B
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TIDA-00318

I am using a SAMSUNG wireless charger (Model: EP: PG9201) Transmitter for my project, and at the receiver end I have RX coil of 26uH inductance and 520 mOhm DC Resistance, when i place the reciver assembly on top of the transmitter the coil is picking up voltage and pinging is taking place but it seems like the transmitter is not detecting the device.

based on the calculations in page 29 of the BQ51050 manual the C1 and C2 was determined and as 30 nF and 1nF and when the receiver configuration was placed on the Qi Samsung wireless charger it did not seem to work as intended so started to analyze the circuit i tried to change the C10 & C14, COMM1 & COMM2  cap to 47nf  yet did not  get any results

After hooking up the scope across C7 cap I get this in my scope and the frequency out of dual resonant circuit across the Cd (C7 cap) to be 37 kHz where it was suppose to be 1MHz and in the scope !

in the above image i presume the long pulse to be the pinging form the transmitter but  the short pulse is it the response packet from the BQ ?

and this seems to continue but the charging does not start.

and this is a more closer view of the wave form. with a voltage of 1.8 V peak.

and the next image is when the system without the battery connected 

I would like to know what this wave forms are and is there any way for me to analyse what is going on with the BQ15050B or is there any shortcoming in  my design, if possible please send me a reference of how the communication wave form looks like between the transmitter and the receiver. 

  • Hello
    In the first photo we see a Digital Ping that should power the RX and allow it to respond, but I cannot see any modulation on the signal.
    See FAQ section of the forum "Wireless Power FAQ--TX Trouble Shooting Guide" take a look at slide 6. It will show a typical start up sequence.

    What size is your RX coil?
    If the coil is below 20mm diameter it may have problems communicating with the TX. Also see TIDA-00318 for more info.
  • Bill,

    my RX coil is of 19 mm dia
  • Hi Bill,

    Thank you for your reply, I checked out the troubleshooting slides, and after hooking up the V-Rect to the DSO I got a signal as of the one that's shown in the slide 9 of the Troubleshooting manual. So does that does mean that my transmitter data transfer is not being recognized by my receiver!

    I did read this method of testing the IC for its Digital PWM output every 500ms from slide 4 of the Troubleshooting manual but I did not understand how to power up the IC in order to check this pulse from the comm line without the RX. Please walk me through this test scenario or any other way of testing the IC for its serviceability.