Re: [Emc-developers] 8i20 Support Patch

2010-11-12 Thread Andy Pugh
On 12 November 2010 22:15, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > The filenames of the 8i20 and 7i64 drivers are misleading.  The "hm2_" > filename prefix has so far been used to denote Anything I/O boards - > boards that can run the hostmot2 firmware.  We have hm2_7i43 and hm2_pci > (for all the PCI AnyIO

Re: [Emc-developers] 8i20 Support Patch

2010-11-12 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 11/11/2010 07:21 PM, Andy Pugh wrote: > An updated and tested version of the 8i20 patch. > Thanks for the patch, I've looked briefly over it. Some questions/feedback: Does this code drive the hostmot2 firmware module called "UART" in the regmap? Or something else not mentioned in the cu

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Jon Elson
On 11/12/2010 12:10 PM, Peter C. Wallace wrote: > > All this three phase stuff makes me wonder if a car alternator (with diodes > removed) would make a fair AC servo motor (you would have to supply the field) > I guess one disadvantage is that they would have fairly high inertia > > It has been

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Andy Pugh
On 12 November 2010 19:39, Kirk Wallace wrote: > Ouch. Indications are, this is your bike. How did the story end? So far so good. I decided that all the bits of magnetic grit were either in the oil, in the oil filter, in the bottom of the sump or stuck somewhere out of the way. I dropped the su

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 19:02 +, Andy Pugh wrote: ... snip > Perhaps in the original application too? > http://www.bodgesoc.org/OhDear.jpg Ouch. Indications are, this is your bike. How did the story end? -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Andy Pugh
On 12 November 2010 18:46, Kirk Wallace wrote: > Another project I was > thinking about, is seeing if my motorcycle permanent magnet alternator > would work as a three-phase motor. It is configured just like an > out-runner, but this doesn't have a controllable field. Getting rid of > delicate m

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:10 -0800, Peter C. Wallace wrote: ... snip > All this three phase stuff makes me wonder if a car alternator (with diodes > removed) would make a fair AC servo motor (you would have to supply the field) > I guess one disadvantage is that they would have fairly high inertia

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 17:34 +, Andy Pugh wrote: > On 12 November 2010 17:12, Mario. wrote: > > > And as for "flat-topped sine wave, are you sure it is NOT a space > vector wave? When I did SVPWM on PIC18F452 some 6 years ago, it made a > lovely sine wave measured from phase to phase, > > Sur

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Andy Pugh wrote: > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:34:50 + > From: Andy Pugh > Reply-To: EMC developers > To: EMC developers > Subject: Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver > > On 12 November 2010 17:12, Mario. wrote: > >> And as for "flat-topped sine wave, are you sure it is N

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Andy Pugh
On 12 November 2010 17:12, Mario. wrote: > And as for "flat-topped sine wave, are you sure it is NOT a space vector > wave? When I did SVPWM on PIC18F452 some 6 years ago, it made a lovely sine > wave measured from phase to phase, Surely what you are describing there is more related to the drive

Re: [Emc-developers] BLDC Driver

2010-11-12 Thread Mario.
Well, in precise machine control, there are systems which use SRM motors in the range of 400V, 500A which offer phase accuracy of about 10um at speeds of 10m/s. Does that make them AC servo motors or BLDC motors? And as for "flat-topped sine wave, are you sure it is NOT a space vector wave? When I