Design of an Active Battery Equalization Circuit with DC-DC Converter

An active balanced topology circuit based on DC-DC converter is proposed in this paper. It uses the energy of the whole battery pack to charge the lowest voltage cell. In the control strategy, starting and stopping the equalization is well controlled by setting the appropriate thresholds of voltage difference between each cell. Experiment board which can sample and equalize 16 batteries is manufactured, and the experimental results verify the effectiveness of the proposed equalization system.