The secondary safety features of the BQ41Z50 can be used to indicate more serious faults via the FUSE pin.
This pin can be used to blow an in-line fuse to permanently disable the battery pack
from charging or discharging.
The secondary safety features provide protection
against:
- Safety Cell Undervoltage
(SUV)
- Safety Cell Overvoltage
(SOV)
- Safety Pack Overvoltage
(SOVP)
- Safety Overcurrent in Charge
(SOCC)
- Safety Overcurrent in
Discharge (SOCD)
- Safety Overtemperature
(SOT)
- Safety Overtemperature FET
(SOF)
- Open Wire Detection (OWD)
- Open Thermistor
- Voltage Imbalance at Rest
(VIMR)
- Voltage Imbalance Active
(VIMA)
- CHG FET Failure (CFET)
- DSG FET Failure (DFET)
- Over Precharge Capacity (OPC)
- Fuse Failure (FUSE)
- AFE Register Failure
(AFER)
- AFE Communication Failure
(AFEC)
- Second Level Protector Trip
(2LVL)
- Instruction Flash Checksum
Failure (IFC)
- Open Cell Connection
(OPNCELL)
- Data Flash Wearout Failure
(DFW)