Hello,
I found some good information regarding the BQ27541, HDQ, and hibernate on this forum. I know what I need to do, but I can't seem to make it happen.
We are using the BQ27541 (not the V200 yet) to just measure current and voltage and pass that along via HDQ. HDQ communication works and I can see current and V values using the EV2300 and BQ gas gauge Eval software. I noticed HDQ would stop working and saw info on this forum and V200 data sheet that says you have to disable hibernate by writing zeros to Hibernate V and Hibernate I in the data flash/configuration section. I saw the suggestion on the forum to do a read all, save the file, change hibernate to zeros, and then import back in.
When I go to "data flash" in the eval software and tell it to read all, I get a slow moving progress bar in the bottom right of the screen. It gets to 100% and then starts over in a few seconds. I don't get any configuration values even though it finished. I found if I click on Data Ram and then click back to data flash, then the page updates and I see configuration values (with the correct default values). Read all and write all are still grayed out since it is still reading. I left it going over night and when I came in I had values and write all was available. I saved the info to a .gg file, modified the Hibernate V and I values to zero, but when I went to import I got a message
I have installed the BQ Eval software on two computers. Even though I can talk via HDQ to the BQ27541, I always get these two messages on both computers when I run the software. After those messages, I can read V and I via HDQ, but I thought maybe this helps diagnose the problem.
Thanks,
Matt