So you are watching this on Torque Pro? For cell balancing to occur, they would need to be holding voltage steady. Is this what you are seeing?
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I live in rural Arkansas, and the first CCS station within reasonable driving range just opened up, with 4 350 KW CCS plugs, 3 150 KW CCS plugs, and 1 50 KW CHAdeMO plug.
Starting with 53% SOC when I plugged in it started off with 54.46 KW charging rate, and about 35 min later sent me a text saying I was at 80% SOC. By the time I walked back to my car from shopping, I had been charging for 42 min, and was at 85% SOC and the charge rate was down to 18 KW. Over all I received 22 KW in 42 min, for an average over the charging session of 31.4 KW. I know that starting from a lower SOC would have gotten me a better average charge rate.
Anyone have charts for charge rate on a high power CCS (350 KW or 150 KW) made from real world data yet? I am curious about the charge rate vs SOC for the high power units.
Later,
Keith
Starting with 53% SOC when I plugged in it started off with 54.46 KW charging rate, and about 35 min later sent me a text saying I was at 80% SOC. By the time I walked back to my car from shopping, I had been charging for 42 min, and was at 85% SOC and the charge rate was down to 18 KW. Over all I received 22 KW in 42 min, for an average over the charging session of 31.4 KW. I know that starting from a lower SOC would have gotten me a better average charge rate.
Anyone have charts for charge rate on a high power CCS (350 KW or 150 KW) made from real world data yet? I am curious about the charge rate vs SOC for the high power units.
Later,
Keith
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I would be amazed if GM was actively balancing cells at anywhere other than full charge. It would require, basically, another complete BMS.Yes, it is on torque pro. If the overall charge voltage has to be constant for cell balancing, then no. But it does appear that individual cells are getting more or less current depending on their cell-level voltage. For instance, I have approximately 10 cell groups that are consistently .01 V lower than all of the other cell groups; however, during this phase, they can reach parity or drop to as much as .02 V lower than the other cell groups.
Whatever is going on during that phase of the charge curve, it looks different than the other phases of the charge curve.
If this is actually a group of ten cells you are looking at, it may be a complete module. The cells are arranged:
cells 1-10, module #1 , temp thermistor #1
cells 11-20, module #2 , temp thermistor #2
cells 21-30, module #3 , no temp thermistor
cells 31-40, module #4 , no temp thermistor
cells 41-48, module #5 , temp thermistor #3 (module #5 has only 8 cells)
cells 49-58, module #6 , temp thermistor #4
cells 59-66, module #7 , no temp thermistor (module #7 has only 8 cells)
cells 67-76, module #8 , temp thermistor #5
cells 77-86m module #9 , no temp thermistor
cells 87-96, module #10, temp thermistor #6
Module #5 and module #6 are up under the rear seat. When the car sits for a period of time, without coolant circulation, you will see these two modules sit at a higher temp than the others. During coolant circulation this is not the case. Then, modules #1 and #10 are often the hottest.
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