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#January 15, 2025 Questions
frank mist
tired quest
This came up in the discord channel from a user who wanted to use the TI BQ40Z50-R2 "1-4 series Li-ion battery pack manager" which allows hooking up to 4 lipos in series. Data sheet can be seen here: https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/bq40z50-r2.pdf
The question was are the Adafruit multi-cell Lipo packs (e.g. #5035), which present as a "single cell" at the connector, compatible with ICs such as TI's that allow serial connection of multiple lipo batteries? Could one build a 14.8V 10ah supply with four Adafruit #5035s for example?
knotty elk
How hard would it be to make something similar to ethernet (or token ring) using pio to cluster RP2350s?
frank mist
This came up in the discord channel from a user who wanted to use the TI BQ40Z50...
Ladyada answered your question on Ask an Engineer https://www.youtube.com/live/Vm_R5diG9Wg?feature=shared&t=3507
