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Re: Measuring motor current (anyone tried this?)

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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
allowed us to do PID control on the current to ensure that we did not exceed a maximum current draw.
Hi Jason,

Are you saying that your primary mode of control was current? Or were you controlling voltage (or perhaps speed), with a max current limiter?


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