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Re: programming for brownout avoidance

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Originally Posted by bowmanb View Post
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.
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how do we:
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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.
I guess you could tell the students that removing a CIM from each side will implement a governor to keep the current under the brownout threshold.

But then the programmers wouldn't get to have so much fun

Good luck!
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