EVDL Administrator wrote:
Don't you need inductance in the load for a DC controller's current
limit to
function? If so, you'd have to manually monitor the current carefully, no?
As long as your load has enough resistance to limit the current to something under the controller's current limit, the controller will be fine.
Plus, you will have inductance in the load whether you like it or not. If it's a wire-wound resistor, it will be inductive. The connecting wires add a little more inductance as well.
I just know that it works. :-) Note that the Curtis controller manual even shows testing the controller with light bulbs as a simulated motor load. Light bulbs are almost purely resistive.
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