Esslingen, Germany, and Concord, Canada. At the Battery Show Europe May 15-17 in Hanover, Eberspaecher Vecture will present the latest battery-management systems (BMS). Products being featured will include battery modules and new controllers from the scalable µC BMS family. They can be configured according to the specific application, offering full flexibility.
Application areas for integrated BMS are many and varied: they can be used in Industry 4.0, for example, or to enable quick-charge functionality for long-life batteries. Based on a µC BMS controller, the specialists at Eberspaecher Vecture have developed an entire controller family covering any application. The battery management systems monitor and control between four and 22 cells as required. The batteries’ conduction paths can be opened and closed using on-board field effect transistors (FETs) and on-board or external contactors. This enables charging and discharging currents to be reliably controlled. Depending on the controller chosen from the product family, communications between batteries and the BMS run via CAN, I/O interfaces, or wirelessly via Bluetooth LE.
Scalable battery modules
Eberspaecher Vecture will also be presenting its new 7-kWh battery module. The 7-kWh module is scalable from 12 to 48 V. It needs no peripherals and can be built into a variety of different vehicles. This means the battery module is suitable for recreational vehicles with an independent power supply, for example.