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Originally Posted by kamocat
Thank you for the straightforward answers.
How would I measure it in a way that any waveform with the same current would create the same torque? You said algebraic average?
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That's a fair question but the answer has a lot of ifs, ands, and buts.
If the waveform is nice and flat like a
5% 15Khz CIM curve then any sample taken with be both the algebraic average and the RMS, approximately.
If the waveform is an exaggerated sawtooth like a
5% 150Hz CIM curve, then you'd have to sample the instantaneous current and run it through a low-pass filter of some sort. You'd have to make sure your samples captured a reasonable picture of the entire waveform and were set up in such a way that aliasing didn't distort the results. OR, I think a better way would be to hardware-filter the raw analog signal (the amplified voltage across the shunt resistor)
before it goes to the ADC. I think a filter could be designed that would give the algebraic average.