Hello!
I have read the datasheet and some posts in this forum regarding the scale in the BQ34Z100 and I'm still a little bit confused.
I need to use a 24V, 100Ah battery with 10A maximum charge/discharge current.
I realize that this IC only supports up to 29Ah, so there is the need to do some scaling.
I was thinking in using a scale of 4, so that 100Ah/4 = 25Ah (<29Ah). But this scaling would only be made by calibrating the current so that when a 8A current was going through the sense resistor, I would write on the bqStudio that it was 2A. This way, all current and derivative readings like power, energy, etc, would have to be multiplied by 4 by the MCU after read from the BQ34Z100 to show the real value. The SCALED bit from Pack Configuration registers can be set only as an indication for the MCU to know that the calibration had been scaled. Is that right?
Now, I'm confused by the "Design Energy Scale" register. Should this be used along with the calibration scaling described above or is it an alternative method that should be used without doing a calibration scaling?
What do you recommend for my particular application?
Thank you.