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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Thanks Alan, It will take me some days to fully understand everything in your post and to try this out and to return with feedback but...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Hi Alan, To answer your questions, Yes, the tacho input c.4 is available and can be used. The speed range is 3,000 to 10,000 rpm. As...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Since post #71 I have been working on a permanent board for the motor controller and thought I would post a picture. It works just as...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      The forum has been a real learning curve for me. Today my new mosfet drivers, TLP358, arrived and was installed and I learnt what a...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Today was more testing and a very interesting result, but first the motor, it takes 9 seconds from full speed of 10,000rpm to free wheel...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      The armature is heavy which does make slowing down relatively slow compared to accelerating, unless it's loaded. I looked at the...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Today I ran both programs #61 and 63 and the results, in terms of motor performance, were very similar. hunting around the setpoint and...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      I will try your code tomorrow. The soft start is important so I can keep the mosfets to a reasonable size, I'm using 12A 800V ones now...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      I was wondering if I used your #43 program together with "pwmout c.2,OFF" for anything over the setpoint. That might reduce the...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Thanks for your reply. I'm not sure about running this universal motor on AC with the mosfet after the bridge since I need the full DC...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Thank you for the new code, it works just as mine did but much better written. I have now discovered another problem, which so far I...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Thank you for doing that for me. I will run it this evening and the study it to improve
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      I'm my limited experience, just when I think I have a program right, something pops up to show me, I haven't and today is that day. With...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Here's where I'm at with my Universal Motor Controller project. The speed is now controlled with a soft start and the speed range is...
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      Bridges replied to the thread Universal Motor Speed Control.
      Sorry for a long delay in giving feedback but I had to do other work. I have spent the last 4 days trying different values of...
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