Cecil, Ken is right, it could be a host of problems. Have you check the setup for ground loops? The way you describe it, I suspect you are using a single pair of power/ground plane on a multilayer board that did not isolate your motor-driver-power/ground from your control electronics ground.
Check your grounding scheme for common impedance coupling. Tim Foo Ken Javor <ken.javor@emccomplian To: <cecil.gitt...@kodak.com>, <emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org> ce.com> cc: (bcc: Wan Juang Foo/ece/staff/npnet) Sent by: Subject: Re: Motor Noise owner-emc-pstc@majordo mo.ieee.org 12/14/01 05:20 AM Please respond to Ken Javor Ken Javor <ken.ja...@emccompliance.com> 12/14/01 05:20 AM Not enough info for me to weigh in with any kind of certainty. I do know from personal experience that if you use solid state switches to control motor operation by applying a pulse train (PWM) rather than continuous voltage control that will generate big spikes as the inductance of the motor opposes the current change inherent in the pulse rise-time. This is mitigated by slowing the rise-times sufficiently that the L di/dt product is manageable. cecil.gitt...@kodak.com 12/13/01 10:04 PM From: Cecil A. Gittens All ...... specifically Senior EMC Team Members. I am having a problem on the power control board, in the motor control ckt. when we turn the motors on. This condition creates significant noise spike on my entire ground plane, along with the other power ckts, this needs to be cleaned up for signal integrity issues, even more then EMC reasons at this time. Anyone can feel free to stop in and give me some ideas. Best regards, Cecil ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: majord...@ieee.org with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: pstc_ad...@garretson.org Dave Heald davehe...@mediaone.net For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: ri...@ieee.org Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.