Laptop battery charging circuit

[yaya3gmax]

This is awesome

[Mescaleno]

Great explanation. Thxs

[saveelektro]

Thank you so much for this great post, i'm starting to love this forum

[Sametbey]

Voltages measured on a working notebook may be helpful.

[wk kim]

Thank you

[mon2]

This will probably be that the high side battery charge MOSFET is defective. The high side and low side mosfets switch on/off to lower the main power rail voltage to charge the battery. Remove all power. Meter in resistance mode. Test the resistance across the MOSFET pins:

Source / drain
Source / gate
Gate / drain

Each resistance must be hundreds of k ohms or higher else the mosfet is defective.

[M Ramdhan Qurrota A'yun]

What is the solution if the voltage on the + battery pin is 19volts, but the battery is not installed?

[cyngo]

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How is this charging process related to EC / KBC? I think they keep communicating so they can charge. for example on the SMB0_DAT & SMB0_CLK pins in the battery socket, where these pins are connected directly to the KBC. There are times when the pin drops because of the KBC so the charging process doesn't occur, there are also times when you need to flash the KBC or replace the KBC so that the charging process occurs.

[Liken]

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No.

.

OK.

It's just that I was thinking what would happen if you had a battery with a locked BMS or with a blown fuse, and, instead of bridging it, you put a regular 4S BMS (without comms) in parallel with the original. So the laptop communicates status with the original BMS while receiving power through the parallel BMS. But I understand that most, if not all, will refuse to enable charging.

[Vesko356]

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A question.

If laptop battery BMS is locked (there is not output voltage), and you bridge, force, output voltage (I know, it is not recommended and it is dangerous, this a theoretical question), would the laptop charge the battery?

Or put another way. If the battery BMS, through communications, tells the laptop that it is locked, would the laptop enable voltage for charging?

No.

.

[Liken]

Re: Laptop battery charging circuit

A question.

If laptop battery BMS is locked (there is not output voltage), and you bridge, force, output voltage (I know, it is not recommended and it is dangerous, this a theoretical question), would the laptop charge the battery?

Or put another way. If the battery BMS, through communications, tells the laptop that it is locked, would the laptop enable voltage for charging?

[Onabit]

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Thank You for this informative thread

Pls the charging IC bq736 hidrv and lowdrv give 1.3v
I don't understand is it correct or it suppose to be 3v... The system am working on is hp 640

[adhiea7x]

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Thanks for this wealth of information all in one

[RetroComputingGrotto]

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Some great information here! I'm currently working on a laptop motherboard that wont power on (no power LED even lighting up) so this information is going to help me a lot in the fault-finding process

[chandrakant]

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Thank u

[mikeondieki]

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Very educating content thanks a lot it helped

[dwnisup91]

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Great thread! Thank you for sharing.

[pappothar]

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you guys are really amazing !

[mvrahie]

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Thank you for the information 😊

[netgearnetgear]

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Wonderful post. I had a low battery warning recently on a hp 14-018la laptop. Turns out it was the battery that needed to be replaced. Thanks