> >>> I also have Yaskawa drives and motors but planned to replace drive. 
> >>> Encoder is three quadrature signal which is a little bit odd, third 
> >>> usually is zero. I have no time read are comment anything for a day or 
> >>> two.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I think the scheme (I had some of the old Yaskawa ServPack
> >> drives and motors once) is the C channel looks like A and B,
> >> but the phase relationship between them tells what
> >> electrical quadrant you are in.  So, immediately on
> >> power-up, the drive knows which coils to drive to move the
> >> motor.
> > They are BLDC motors?
> >
> >
> Yes, all the Yaskawa ServoPack motors are 3-phase permanent 
> magnet motors with integral encoders.
> I hate the term BLDC, as they are not DC motors.  But, some 
> people call them that.

I ran them with like PMSM sinusiodal voltages instead of trapezoidal BLDC and 
they seemed to work quite well. I better take a close look at the voltage 
waveforms.

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