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Although in principle only a signal buffer, there are many design considerations and additional features that affects the performance of the gate driver. This article aims to cover the basics.
Get rich, smart and famous by understanding the dark arts of space vector pulse width modulation! A must for everyone aspiring to become a star in the drives community!
Who doesn't want to get a quick and dirty understanding of the concepts behind vector control?
Let's have a look at how the power circuitry is implemented in a commercially available motor drive.
Quite Universal Circuit Simulator(QUCS) is a open source SPICE based circuit simulator.
Voltage reflections is a phenomenon where a propagating voltage pulse arrives at the load and returns back to the source due to high dV/dt. This post explains the theory behind it and how to handle it.
Transformers and inductors are important in all areas of electronics. Lets go over the basic operating principles, as well as some methods used when designing such components.
Let's clarify the difference between the novelty of silicon carbide devices compared to the traditional silicon based ones
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Check out the latest status of the motor drive project or get an overview in the project description.
The new inverter card is getting ready for production, and I’ve thrown a full-bridge rectifier onto it as well.
How to connect to the unconnectable? This post will show you how to design an interface connection card to a component with no direct connection options.
Let's take a look at how we have designed the voltage sensing circuit for DC-link voltage measurements
Finally, all the main parts have arrived after starting the selection and ordering process almost six weeks ago.
This post presents the winners
The motor drive project's main controller arrived today. Here's a piece about the card and what it can do for us
This site main project, a fully working sensorless motor drive system - designed, developed and built from scratch. This post describes the main parts of such a project.
Applying pulse trains to an electric motor comes with some interesting consequences. In this post, we take a closer look at currents arising inside the motor frame and how they flow about.