Imagine for a second how useful (or useless) your car would be without a gas gauge. Not very appealing, is it? The same principle applies to battery-powered systems. Including a gas gauge in a battery-powered system provides accurate capacity information…
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Battery gas gauges using Impedance Track TM technology use a blend of coulomb counting and voltage based algorithms to provide the most accurate state of charge indication for a wide variety of secondary batteries…
From the perspective of cell numbers in series, the battery fuel-gauge world has always been binary. You could either opt for a single-cell gauge or a 2-4 series multi-cell gauge in your designs. The binary world works great if all of your designs fall…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQSTUDIO If you have just designed in an Impedance Track™ gas gauge, this post will help you get started with the essential learning cycle you’ll need to achieve the best accuracy. A learning cycle is when you cycle your…
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When you hear the term “gas gauge,” the first thought that comes to mind might be the gauge in your car. You depend on the accuracy of that gauge to keep you from getting stuck on the side of the road. Likewise…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQ27426 You might have heard of phrases like “gauge made easy,” “easy-to-use gauge,” “value-gauge products” or even “gauge in a few clicks.” The truth is that there is no easy way to make a “good” battery fuel gauge, but…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQ34110 Battery packs are used in the products that we depend on daily. Many of our portable devices such as our cell phones, our watches and our tablet computers are constantly at our sides and running on batteries. Consequently…
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“Batteries are impacting almost every facet of the world around us. Together we unlock possibilities for a smarter, safer, greener, healthier…