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  • Operation!

  • So, this is the part everyone has been waiting for. Franken Pump drinks its first blood. And by blood I mean.... wait, Frankenstein doesn't drink blood...  Anyways! Horrible humor aside.. The operation of this pump is exciting!  It's probably...
  • Boards In Action

  • On this video I do a quick introduction to some of the Power PACk boards and how they can drive a small aerial vehicle motor. In this case, the motor was taken to 2600 Hz at 26V and 3.3A or so, which is in the 85W worth of input power. How much power...
  • Software requirements

  • Outputs Generate step/dir for controlling a stepper motor, or generate PWM/dir for controlling a BLDC motor or standard DC motorFor the prototype, the current motor is a stepper.  The end goal is to drive the BLDC motor. Software generates a trigger,...
  • [P] Chain in a channel

  • So I'm looking for where I misplaced my tin foil box, and I see something in the bag of TCT360 goodies I got months ago:It's a peek print on a metal ball chain! And, conveniently enough, it's the size I've been using for the current Tetrinsic redesign....
  • [L] Expansion Pins

  • So I've looked into the TC358870XBG and it seems that 2 I2C pins, 1 reset pin, 1 clock pin and an INT pin is needed. One probably could make a circuit that generated the clock instead of the MCU, but a free pin is cheaper than that.  The main issue...
  • Gate drivers and Hall effect sensors

  • Today I accomplished two main things. The first was quite simple. I was able to get the gate driver IC's mounted to the SOIC-8 to DIP-8 breakout boards from sparkfun. The second was to determine where to place the hall effect sensors to meet the needs...
  • Assembly

  • So you've made it this far with me. It's time we assemble the beast and bring Franken pump to life!  This was a very straight forward assembly almost boring perhaps. Surprisingly there were absolutely no major issues with my designs and subsequently...
  • Continuous flash memory checking!

  • So here's something the average build does not have: A thread running in the background continuously checking the integrity of the flash memory! So while your high performance powertrain is crunching numbers, running a 30kHz control loop, communications,...
  • Current Sensor Failure Detection

  • Fresh merge from VESC repository: https://github.com/vedderb/bldc/pull/88 Last week we provided the code to handle 2 dangerous failure modes: Sensor/wiring damageFault to ground If a current sensor is damaged, the FOC will run out of control, with dangerous...