Battery discharge/charge application question

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Hi @SidPrice,

The JS110 is primarily intended as a 1 quadrant device (+current, +voltage), but it does measure into the -voltage and -current ranges for some 4-quadrant capabilities. The fast current autoranging only works with +current. However, it does autorange slower on negative currents, and battery charging does not normally have fast transients. You have a few options:

  1. Use Joulescope as normal with your target device. The negative current maximum design threshold is -1.8A, so as long as your negative current does not exceed -1.5A or so, Joulescope will easily measure it. Do note that the autoranging on negative currents is much slower.
  2. Use Joulescope to measure discharge into your target device, and reconfigure your setup for charing. To measure charging, connect your “target” device to Joulescope’s IN and the battery to Joulescope’s OUT.
  3. Tell me that I should start developing a full 4-quadrant Joulescope immediately.

Check out this reply which contains information on Joulescope’s designed ranges. Note that 0.5.0 fixed the negative current autoranging oscillation.

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