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Re: paper: New Control Functions - Drive System Testing

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
Consider this an opportunity to do dynamic power management. You can monitor battery voltage and motor currents, and you should be able to come up with a way to keep the voltage from sagging low enough to trigger the automatic brownout.
Is there a way to calculate how much current it would take in total to drop battery voltage to a certain level? It seems like there should be, but I don't know where to start.
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