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    Automotive Electronics Protection Circuit - best Practice?

    Yeah but its varies a great deal and basing my general purpose circuit on an exact copy of stuff from 10 years ago may not be using the best available parts for the solution. I would like to get it as small as possible foot print and some old designs use big stuff. J.
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    Automotive Electronics Protection Circuit - best Practice?

    Hi Guys, I would appreciate your thoughts on the following. Looking for a gerneral purpose design that will provide protection and 5 volt regulator for use in Automotive microcontroller applications. The holy grail would have a small foot print on the PCB, pretty bulluit proof and a sensbile...
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    PCB Layout for multiple SPI devices.

    Thanks for the reassurance guys, good to know SPI is not super picky, I'll just go for a tidy layout on the prototype board and see how we fair. I'm sure there will be plenty of other bits that'll trip me up in the layout! :-) Cheers, John.
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    PCB Layout for multiple SPI devices.

    Hi, Working on my first project that has multiple slave SPI devices served by a single microcontroller. When laying out the PCB tracks for the SPI control lines between the devices what are best design practices? Do I simply; Daisy-chain the control lines between the devices. Leave absolute...
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    How to reverse Permanent magnet Syncronous Motor

    Thanks Electricuwe, The motor is around 80kw max. When I changed the phases, I did this by moving the control signals and it seems to be working quite well. Now have another software limit to investigate, which is cutting in around half way up the rpm range. J.
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    How to reverse Permanent magnet Syncronous Motor

    Thanks Bill, I've been playing this morning and so far so good. Swapped phases 2 and 3. Swapped the signals from current sensors 2 and 3. Swapped the resolver COS and Sin signals. At this time the motor is running backwards. Testing on the Dyno this afternoon...we shall see if the smoke...
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    How to reverse Permanent magnet Syncronous Motor

    Hi, I need to reverse the rotation of a synchronous permanent magnet motor. We do not have control of the DC to AC (PWM) inverter so cannot simply select reverse in software. As such we would like to attempt to wire the motor and sensors 'backwards' to achieve reverse. The motor is designed to...
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    Reversing a 3 phase Synchronous Interior Permanent Magnet Motor

    Hi, I need to reverse the rotation of a synchronous permanent magnet motor. We do not have control of the DC to AC (PWM) inverter so cannot simply select reverse in software. As such we would like to attempt to wire the motor and sensors 'backwards' to achieve reverse. The motor is designed to...

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