SLUUAQ3A April 2016 – October 2022 BQ4050
The BQ4050 implements a new state-of-health (SoH) function. Previously, the SoH of a battery was typically represented by the actual runtime FullChargeCapacity/Design Capacity (or FCC/DC). Using the runtime FCC, however, was not a very good representation for the state-of-health because the runtime FCC reflects the usable capacity under load. A high current load reduces the runtime FCC. If using just the FCC/DC calculation for SoH, the SoH under high load will be worse than the SoH under typical load. However, a smaller usable capacity at high load does not mean the SoH of a battery is degraded. This is the same when FCC is reduced at a lower temperature.