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    Protocol for interfacing with a microcontroller

    I mean ASCII is rather decent for sending small stubs of information, like lighting up a single led or something. But when wanting to send a lof of commands and information it feels a bit unecessary to do all this from scratch using byte-by-byte ASCII. In my particular case I want to interface...
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    Protocol for interfacing with a microcontroller

    Hello, I want to transfer data to and from a microcontroller over UART. Now I have a homemade protocol sending numerical information in ASCII format. It's working, but I would rather work with some suitable standard protocol if there is some out there?
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    Active rectifier to control generator current

    It's not a regular buck. The inductor acts more as a current limiter when the highside switch is turned on in "buck" mode.
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    capacitor charging timer

    Use an RC series circuit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC_circuit 1. Pick a rather large R as that will reduce the circuits energy consumption. It could probably be as high 0.5-1.0 Mohm, if you can find a suffiently small capacitor to match it. 2. If you apply a voltage U it will take approx...
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    Active rectifier to control generator current

    I'm making a controller for a DC generator. The generator in question is connected to a windturbine so is has highly varying levels of input voltage and current. I have an idea about how to do it and would like to discuss it. The basic idea is to use the DC machine's inductance and not any...
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    Methods for measuring a low voltage

    betwixt: Alright, so it's about the signal to noise ratio then. schmitt trigger: I have to read more about HF power supply filters. Star grounding was interesting, found a great paper on that and other things here...
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    Methods for measuring a low voltage

    Can you elaborate that please? I'm only interested in the DC level of a current controlled by switching. The current design criteria is the time it takes for a DC step change to settle. I'm little worried about the step change ripple introduced by a second order butterworth (eg...
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    Methods for measuring a low voltage

    I want to measure a voltage <100mV for a current measurement setup with the ADC on an Arduino board. In order to get a neat resolution I could either amplify the this voltage to the ADC ref level of 5V or lower the ADC ref level to ~100 mV. However, there is quite some noise on the internal...
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    Measuring average current

    According to this PDF a moving average filter has the fastest possible step-response but still good noise rejection. https://www.analog.com/static/imported-files/tech_docs/dsp_book_Ch15.pdf I also realized that cranking up the PWM switch frequency would keep the DC level about the same but...
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    Switch frequency issues

    I want the current regulator cascaded with the speed controller. This is a common way to improve DC motor speed controller performance, as it helps removing disturbances in the fast electric circuit before it these affect the slower speed control loop. Also it's a linearisation of the very non...
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    Measuring average current

    I want to measure the average current through a small DC motor switched with PWM. Current is measured via a hall-sensor with voltage output. I want a stabilized value each ms for a current regulator, meaning that the filter cant have a too big delay. First I need an analog filter to get rid...
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    Switch frequency issues

    I'm trying to decide the switch frequency on a DC motor on a small robot. The switch frequency should be higher than 1kHz as the robots speed regulator with a cascaded average current regulator is designed to work at a sampling rate of 1 kHz and therefore at least one whole PWM period should...

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