Active Balancing vs Passive Balancing, Which Is Best?
Active Balancing

Active balancing is best suited for high-power applications where high accuracy and fast response times are crucial. Some examples of use cases where active balancing would be best include:

Electric Vehicles: In electric vehicles, the battery pack is subjected to a wide range of temperatures, high currents, and frequent charge and discharge cycles. So, it's best to have active balancing in electric vehicles so that energy can be distributed where it's needed as quickly as possible.
Home Energy Storage Systems: In powerwall systems, the battery pack is used to store energy from renewable sources and to provide backup power during power outages. Active balancing is best for this application because it provides the longest possible run time for a battery,

which could be critical if you are depending on a battery to power your home.
High Current Applications: Active balancing is best for high current applications because active balancing has a much quicker and much more efficient way of balancing cells compared to passive balancing. This is ideal for applications that place a large load on the cells.

Active balancing helps to ensure that the cells in the pack are all at the same state of charge by actively transferring energy from high cells to low cells. This drastically extends the life of the battery pack and improves performance by a significant margin.

Technical Parameters

EnerKey BMS Active Balancer 5A 3S 4S 5S 6S 7S 8S 14S 16S 18S 19S 20S 21S LFP LTO LI-ION lifepo4 Balancer Capacitor Balancer
Product model	EK-C16S5A	EK-C17S5A	EK-C21S5A
Product strings	16S	17S	21S
Suitable strings	12-16S	13-17S	17-21S
Product Size(mm)	L125*W91*T16	L115*W102.5*T16	L145*W130*T18
Weight with box	0.32kg	0.33kg	0.39kg
Battery Type	NCM/LFP/LTO	NCM/LFP/LTO	NCM/LFP/LTO
Suitable capacity	30ah-300ah
Voltage equalization accuracy	5mV (typical value)
Balanced Cascading	Support balanced cascading for battery packs, for example , it can cascade for 11S , 24S ,36S , 48S....and so on
Single cell voltage collection range	NCM/LFP version : 2.7V-4.2V
	LTO version : 1.8-4.2V
Undervoltage protects sleep voltage	NCM/LFP version＜2.7V
	LTO version＜1.8V
Under voltage protection Start balancing voltage	NCM/LFP version: 2.835V
	LTO version: 1.89V
Equilibrium method	Patented (Patent No.: ZL 2019 1 1259513.3) balanced architecture Fit capacitor method, the entire battery pack is balanced at the same time. Connect to the battery pack for automatic balancing (default). You can add a switch to manually turn on or off balancing.
Equilibrium current	0.1V Differential pressure 1A Balanced current,
	the differential pressure is proportional to the balanced current,
	the maximum allowable operating current is 5.5A
External power supply	No need for an external power supply,
	relying on the internal energy transfer of the battery to achieve sdjacent equalization.
Quiescent operating current	7mA, the total string draws power
Sleep standby current	0.1mA(typical value)
Operating Temperature	-20℃ ~ +60℃

Packing List

Wire connect

A single EK-C21S5A supports the use of 17 and 18 and 19 and 20 and 21 string battery packs. The wiring method is as follows:

EK-C21S5A supports cascading battery packs. Fox exmple, 2pcs of 21s cascade to 41s, see below drawing:

NOTE:As shown in the figure above,there can be multiple common ends of energy exchangeso that the efficiency of equilibrium will be higher;It is also possible to use only one common end of theenergy exchange atthejunction of two modules.

The other free feet are suspended, and it is best todistribute the number of strings equally on each board.If you need the cascade diagram for more strings, Please contact our online service, Thanks.

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