Am Donnerstag, den 12.11.2020, 11:50 +0100 schrieb H. Nikolaus Schaller:
Hi,
Dave also mentioned something about the Watchdog in IRC, AFAIR, seems like there's still a lot we can do regarding the driver software.
I also did test a bit more - and found out the following:
* If I charge the unit (while idling) via the Serial port, it draws about 1.8A (at 5.3V) from my power supply, which seems to work fine.
* If I charge the unit via the USB OTG port, it draws about 2.5A, so it seems using this port, the battery can be charged faster. However, when I do this, the battery shows an error after a while. I put the battery out and measured the temperature using an external measurement device - and it was around 39°C. So yeah, that's probably the reason here it disconnects!
It seems with 2.5A, the battery runs too hot, where it works still fine with 1.8A.
It could be that 45°C would be good enough (if we change the resistors), but a quick question upfront:
Can we limit the input current?
So, for example, if we had some thermal management that watches the temperature: If the battery reaches 32°C, limit the current to 2A max to prevent the battery from heating even more?
Is that limit software configurable - or does the bq not support this?
I have a new observation. While testing the new mipi display driver the battery drained completely and the Pyra was shut down (by Palmas).
Then I connected the charger to the USB port. Charging (and the Pyra) started for a short time (LED goes red).
After a while the Pyra went off again, even with USB cable connected. And the red LED turned off. At ca. 30°C. So no over/under temperature.
Now the interesting observation: even unplugging and replugging the USB cable did not (re)start charging to let the LED go red.
What I had to do was to unplug USB and remove the battery. After that, the Pyra was constantly charging for ca. 4-5 hours until the battery became full. Even while I turned on/off/reboot the Pyra while continuing my tests.
Now the new idea: does this have something to do with the "safety timer?". Should we restart it to trigger a new charging sequence? Does it stop every further charging attempt once expired?
I am not even sure if the safety timer can be reset by software.
If not, we may have to use the bq2429x watchdog which resets the chip (like unplugging the battery) if the OMAP isn't retriggering it every now and then. This would also have the benefit that the chip falls in a well defined state if we turn the OMAP off which does not depend on what the bq driver did in the past minutes.
I have some (untested/incomplete/experimental) bq2429x watchdog extension which I have attached.
Discussion of this topic is welcome.
BR, Nikolaus
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