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12.17.2010, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by BrianG View Post
By the way, how are you determining what is a short circuit vs just a really high current surge from a tall geared setup, especially since you are looking for very fast response times (those burst currents can get really high for a couple ms)?
Pretty easy actually -- we just set maximum PWM values based on the integral of the amplitude of partial throttle currents. This limits maximum power dissipation on the transistors.


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