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BQ51013B: BQ51013B & BQ24040 setup for 1A current charge for 1800mAh Lipo battery

Part Number: BQ51013B
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: BQ24040,

Dear TI support, 

My name is Joaquim Martinez and I am desiging a battery charger for a 1800mAh LiPo battery. 

For this I am using a QI BQ51013B and BQ24040 and my desired charge current is 800mA. The problem is that I can't never achieve the 800mA, the current is always arounf 350-400mA, even disabling the communication current limit setting QI EN2 to "1". According with the components descriptors of both datasheets, my setup and values are:

BQ51013B:

Coil: VISHAY IWAS-3827EC-50 (Ls:10.7uH and L's = 15.7uH aprox)

C1 (series capacitor): 103nF/16V. matched for 125KHz.

C2 (parallel capacitor): 2.47nF/16V. matched for 1MHz.

Ccomm_x = 22nF/25V

Cboot_x = 10nF/25V

Cclamp_X = 470nF/16V

EN1 = 0, EN2 = 1 (tied directly to REG output and to an external 5V)

TS_CTRL pin with 10k resistor to GND.

Rfod = 196R

Ros = 20K

R1 = 82R -> Current limit 1.1A, Imax = 942mA

C4 (Cout) = 10uF/16V

C3 (Crect) = 10uF+4.7uF/25V

BQ24040:

R_Iset = 680R -> charge current to 790mA

R_preterm = 2K

I have done several tests and I can't increase the charge current. My tests are based on two scenarios:

1. With the whole system: QI+charger+battery 

2. QI+variable load equipment (no battery and with charger isolated).

In the scenario 1, current is limited to 350-400mA, in the constant current phase, and Vout from BQ51013B is 5.07V. In the scenario 2, when I increase the load current, through the dynamic load equipment, when I reach the 400mA, Vout starts to fall to 4.5, 4, 3.5, etc. in the way that I increase the current charge. 

I tried to recalculate C1 and C2 to match them to 100KHz, but the problem is the same.

Since I am sure that the resistors for setting the current limits and operation of both IC are good, and EN2 is ok, I doubting about the coil, matching C1 and C2 values and max DC voltage of all capacitors connected to the coil. My doubts are:

1. According to the coil datasheet, it can works up 10W. This is the same power that a recommended coil in the datasheet (IWAS-4832FF-50). Is the size of my coil good for achieve the 800mA? I think yes, because in BQ51013B datasheet they are smaller coils.

2. The matching values are ok? Must I calculate the values for 100KHz or 125KHz?

3. How affect the DC rated voltage for C clamp and C1 and C2 that I am using (16V)?. Is this a problem? can explain my problem? 

4. Finally, how important are Cout and Crect values to achieve the 800mA?

Please, can anybody help me with this?

Thanks.

Joaquim.

   

  • Hello Joaquim
    A couple of things to check:
    1.) On the bq51013B look at the voltage at RECT pin, in scenario 2 does the RECT voltage track output voltage as it decreases? You should also see the communication packets does the rate of them change, normal is every 250mS and fast is 30mS?
    2.) FOD is not calibrated and may be causing issues, to increase margin --- increase RFOD and decrease RILIM, a value to try would be 10 and 260. ILIMI will remain the same and reported FOD power will increase.
    3.) If communications RX to TX are a problem try increasing COMM caps to 47nF
    4.) In scenario 2 when output voltage decreases what is the TX input current doing, is it increasing to try and support load or flat?

    What can you tell me about the TX you are using?
  • Hi Bill,

    After reviewing your comments, I performed more test and finally I found the problem, and it was the USB cable... I changed the transmitter which had another USB cable and my receiver started to charge to 800mA. Due to the fact that both transmitter support 1A charge, I changed the cable and it worked fine!

    I suppose that the former cable was USB 2.0 and the latter 3.0 because thay have not identification.

    Thank you very much for your help.

    Joaquim.