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Unread 02-13-2016, 10:33 PM
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programming for brownout avoidance

Our team is using a 6 cim drive for the first time and we are of course finding it quite easy to brown out when approaching full throttle from a stop and in turns in high gear.

I don't want to discuss the relative merits of 6 cim vs. 4 cim. The team wanted to do this and I lost the argument.

Ive looked in all my usual places for this and have come up empty.

The question is: In LabView how do we:
  1. access the PDB data on current and voltage
  2. implement a "governor" routine using this data to compute a scaler to limit our motor power to keep the current draw under the brownout threshold.
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