The foxBMS 1 version 1.6.5 is available on GitHub.

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Warning: The foxBMS platform including the foxBMS hardware and the foxBMS software are under permanent development. The free and open research and development platform foxBMS as presented in the documentation hereafter is not provided to be used without any adaptions (e.g., to fulfill mandatory regulations) in consumer products, electric vehicles, production environments or any similar usages: the open source version of the foxBMS platform is only intended to be used by skilled professionals trained in designing battery system prototypes.

Hereafter is a summary of the changes provided in foxBMS 1 version 1.6.5.

Software:

  • Toolchain:
    • none
  • Bugfixes:
    • Fixed PEC for commands ltc2_BC_cmdADOW_PUP_filtered_DCP0 and ltc2_BC_cmdADOW_PDOWN_filtered_DCP0 in the LTC driver. (embedded-software/mcu-common/src/module/ltc/ltc.c)
  • Enhancements:
    • none

Hardware:

  • none

Documentation:

    • Added supply current values to the specifications section of the 12 cell and 18 cell slaves. (documentation/sphinx/hardware_documentation/specifications/specifications.rst)
    • Updated year in copyright.
    • Fixed typo in changelog entry for release 1.6.4.
    • Fixed typos in documentation section about monitored parameters (monitored_parameters.rst)

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The Fraunhofer IISB foxBMS Team