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bq27510-G3 detect when no battery connected

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Is there a reliable way of telling from the I2c interface if a battery is connected or not?

 

In my design I am not using interrupts for event notification. I am not interested in the battery insertion or removal just whether there is a battery connected or not. I was previously checking Average and Instantaneous current for zero since in bqstudio these values fall to zero when the battery is disconnected but have some value otherwise. When I monitor the fuel gauge on my system board however these values also fall to zero when the battery is fully charged (SOC=100%) so that is not a reliable indicator.

  • Hi Gerry,
    The BAT_DET bit in the Flags register (bit 3) can be used to determine if the gauge has detected that a battery has been connected, as long as the BIE bit in OpConfig B (bit 6) is set to 1. That said, it should already be enabled as BIE is set to 1 by default.

    Regards,
    Jason