Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-12 Thread Joachim Franek
On Sunday 04 March 2012 10:34:32 Joachim Franek wrote: 2. Add 6 and gates to stop motor commutation in case of to high DC voltage. Search the net for IGBT protection and find for example: ir2137igbt.pdf: IGBT Protection for AC and BLDC Motor Drives fuji_igbt_application_manual(REH984).pdf:

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-09 Thread charles green
i'm in an apt, so i'd have to luck out and find to wall strings on different legs for dopple volts. --- On Thu, 3/8/12, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: From: Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11 To: Enhanced Machine

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-08 Thread Anders Wallin
2012/3/6 Joachim Franek joachim.fra...@pibf.de: FNB41060 - IGBT SMART PM,600V,10A 10 Euro at Farnell I think the IRAMS and this FNB41060 definitely 'solve' the H-bridge part of the circuit. The challenge is to design current-sensing, EMI-filtering, powersupplies, and optoisolation around the

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-08 Thread charles green
: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11 To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012, 10:38 AM charles green wrote: so the motor in, say, a small drill press or a _bench grinder_

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-08 Thread Thomas Powderly
Awallin, those gate drive opto's from Shane Colton are sweet and the MITER's blogs are great I have to replace an ebike BLDC controller maybe able to use orphaned Mitsubishi motors with his design thanks TomP --

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-08 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 03:19 -0800, charles green wrote: it is a cost sensitive application, as always, and limited to single 115v phase mains supply. there are the sherline spindles/motors with decent speed controls, but sherline stuff is kinda spendy. i dont recall seeing any retail vfd

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-08 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
Up to ~1.5hp you can buy 115v input VFDs that output 220v. I think they just use voltage doublers in their rectifier stage and 2x the capacitance. FWIW, these DON'T work well in a (properly wired) garage. 120V outlets in a garage are supposed to all be GFCI protected. Motor frame leakage

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-07 Thread charles green
tools work ok for small small small stuff, but tend to have really sloppy bearings. (..and they are noisy.)) --- On Tue, 3/6/12, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11 To: Enhanced Machine

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-07 Thread Jon Elson
charles green wrote: so the motor in, say, a small drill press or a _bench grinder_ is probably of the resistive start winding type? Yes, generally. Some of these may be capacitor-start, however. If it has a big rounded lump on the side of the motor, then it is cap start. it would be

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-07 Thread Greg Bernard
: Wednesday, March 7, 2012 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11 charles green wrote: so the motor in, say, a small drill press or a _bench grinder_ is probably of the resistive start winding type?   Yes, generally.  Some of these may be capacitor-start, however

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-07 Thread Jon Elson
Greg Bernard wrote: Are you saying a single phase motor can be driven with 2 phase? How would that be done and how would you control speed with such an arrangement? Almost all motors that run from single-phase mains are actually 2-phase motors. The exception are the shaded-pole motors.

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-07 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 21:01 -0600, Jon Elson wrote: ... snip But, capacitor-RUN motors are made to have the start winding energized continuously. If you had a VFD that was designed to produce two outputs with a 90 degree phase shift, you could run a capacitor-run motor from it just fine. You

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-06 Thread Joachim Franek
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Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-06 Thread charles green
what are the differences between one phase motors, two phase motors, and three phase motors? --- On Sun, 3/4/12, Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com wrote: From: Jon Elson el...@pico-systems.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11 To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-06 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 04:22 -0800, charles green wrote: what are the differences between one phase motors, two phase motors, and three phase motors? Generally, single phase power can be described with a single sine wave. The sine wave is the voltage measured between L1 and L2 on the mains and

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-06 Thread Jon Elson
charles green wrote: what are the differences between one phase motors, two phase motors, and three phase motors? A single-phase motor needs something to get it started, as there is no phase rotation to cause the rotor to start turning. There are shaded-pole motors, resistive-start,

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-06 Thread Jon Elson
charles green wrote: what are the differences between one phase motors, two phase motors, and three phase motors? Oh, I wanted to add that a 2-phase motor has a 90 degree phase shift between the two pases. A 3-phase motor has a 120 degree shift between phases. Jon

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-04 Thread Joachim Franek
Any suggestions are welcome. Hello. Overvoltage protection: If the motor acts as a generator DC voltage increases. 1. Add a transistor which switches a resistor in parallel to the DC supply. 2. Add 6 and gates to stop motor commutation in case of to high DC voltage. Joachim

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-04 Thread Joachim Franek
Hello, I can report some progress for my attempts to drive 3 phase motors. I do this to be familiar with the bldc component and use for safety low voltage devices. My setups: Electronics: FAN7382 and BUZ11 board (http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Bridges_-_Half,_Full,_Three_Phase) Hal:

[Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-04 Thread Roland Jollivet
On 3 March 2012 19:03, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I was thinking of using an AVR analog input to sense the IRAMS internal sense resistor then use software to look for current peaks and separate the leg currents if needed, but this is much easier to plan, than to make

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 11:43 +0100, Joachim Franek wrote: Hello, I can report some progress for my attempts to drive 3 phase motors. I do this to be familiar with the bldc component and use for safety low voltage devices. My setups: Electronics: FAN7382 and BUZ11 board

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-04 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sun, 2012-03-04 at 13:19 +0200, Roland Jollivet wrote: On 3 March 2012 19:03, Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com wrote: I was thinking of using an AVR analog input to sense the IRAMS internal sense resistor then use software to look for current peaks and separate the leg

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-04 Thread Jon Elson
Joachim Franek wrote: But I see cross current in case one leg is active from pwm and a commutation occurs. Then for about 120ns I measure a current of 70A (peak). I need a comp to delay the rising edge on the upper fet for one cycle of the fast thread in case in the last cycle the fet

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan, FAN7382 with BUZ11

2012-03-04 Thread Joachim Franek
On Sunday 04 March 2012 18:12:09 Kirk Wallace wrote: I don't know what a SPSM motor is, but from this they can get big: http://www-personal.engin.umd.umich.edu/~chrismi/publications/2009_45_12_TMAG_Solid_equi.pdf Excuse the typo: PMSM: permanent magnet synchronous motor All test are with

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/3 Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com: To make your design fool-proof you need to sense current, possibly on all three motor phases, and do it reliably and quickly in order to shutdown the IRAMS and/or pwm-source when something bad happens. Anders, can You suggest, how to

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread Przemek Klosowski
Anders, can You suggest, how to implement that (preferably a simple and easy way, so that even child or golden retriever :) would understand)? The scheme in my IRAMS datasheet suggests using Shunt resistors for that, but I suspect that something else should also be needed, but I have no idea,

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 09:40 +0200, Anders Wallin wrote: ... snip IIRC what can cause a sudden death of the IRAMS is overcurrent for some reason or another. To make your design fool-proof you need to sense current, possibly on all three motor phases, and do it reliably and quickly in order to

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:03:01 PM Przemek Klosowski did opine: Anders, can You suggest, how to implement that (preferably a simple and easy way, so that even child or golden retriever :) would understand)? The scheme in my IRAMS datasheet suggests using Shunt resistors for that, but

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread Eric Keller
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 4:12 AM, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/3/3 Anders Wallin anders.e.e.wal...@gmail.com: To make your design fool-proof you need to sense current, possibly on all three motor phases, and do it reliably and quickly in order to shutdown the IRAMS

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012, gene heskett wrote: Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:20:02 -0500 From: gene heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan On Saturday, March 03

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-03 Thread gene heskett
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan On Saturday, March 03, 2012 12:03:01 PM Przemek Klosowski did opine: Anders, can You suggest, how to implement that (preferably a simple and easy way, so that even child or golden retriever :) would understand)? The scheme in my

[Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-02 Thread Kirk Wallace
(First Message may have failed due to attachment too big) Attached is my first pass at an IRAMS circuit. It's pretty much a copy of the IRF datasheet example. The plan is to hook up the digital signals to an FPGA card, Pluto-P if I can find it, or 5i25 if I sell something on eBay. The analog

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-02 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/2 Kirk Wallace kwall...@wallacecompany.com: (First Message may have failed due to attachment too big) Attached is my first pass at an IRAMS circuit. It's pretty much a copy of the IRF datasheet example. The plan is to hook up the digital signals to an FPGA card, Pluto-P if I can find

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-02 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 21:52 +0200, Viesturs Lācis wrote: ... snip From my discussions with Andy Pugh our agreement was that 3-phase pwmgen output from Mesa card should be the thing to feed into IRAMS module. ... snip The parallel port is too slow. I already have a Pluto-P and Pico UPC. I think

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-02 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 13:17 -0800, Karl Cunningham wrote: ... snip What DC bus voltage are you planning to feed to the IRAMS module? I have a 45 Volt motor to start testing with. I 'll probably start at 30 to 50 Volts depending on what supply I can scrounge up, then go up from there. I would

Re: [Emc-users] IRAMS Plan

2012-03-02 Thread Anders Wallin
Attached is my first pass at an IRAMS circuit. It's pretty much a copy of the IRF datasheet example. The plan is to hook up the digital signals to an FPGA card, Pluto-P if I can find it, or 5i25 if I sell something on eBay. The analog signals are an unknown for now. IRF seems to recommend