Battery knowledge · Modules, packs and battery management
Ship mode
A deep-sleep state in which a pack switches off its own electronics, and often opens its output switch, so that it can sit on a shelf or in a container for months without draining. A charger connection, a button press or a command wakes it; the factory sets it after final test.
- Also called
- shipping mode, storage mode, shelf mode, transport mode
Example
Modules, packs and battery management: an example situation
Twelve 3.6 V, 5 Ah cells in 6s2p give 21.6 V, 10 Ah and 216 Wh nominally before other restrictions.
Read Ship mode alongside BMS power modes in this context. The states a BMS moves between to save energy. In active mode it measures, estimates and drives the contactors; asleep it draws microamperes to a few milliamperes from the auxiliary battery and wakes on CAN traffic, ignition, a charger plug or a timer to check cells and balance. Sleep current decides how long a parked vehicle can stand.
Use in Lemonergy
Make series/parallel architecture explicit.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Extended Kalman filtering for battery management systems of LiPB-based HEV battery packs: Part 2. Modeling and identification
Gregory L. Plett · Journal of Power Sources · 2004
Topic background · Battery charge balance, open-circuit voltage, ohmic loss, polarization dynamics and model identification; parameters require cell-specific data.
- Getting Started with the BQ76925
Texas Instruments · 2019
Topic background · A concrete BMS analog front-end example: cell voltage, current, temperature measurement and MCU integration.