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Isolating grounds from motors and a microcontroller

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Hi

I a designing a circuit with a microcontroller, and a series of high current motors. I need to isolate the grounds from each other so that the noise from the motors doesnt cause the microcontroller to shut down.

Do I just keep two grounds and separate and join them at the supply with an inductor and some caps? Any advice would be great.
 

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nford said:
Do I just keep two grounds and separate and join them at the supply with an inductor and some caps? Any advice would be great.
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This is calle "start ground" and will certainly help isotate the noise from the motors. You might also consider the optical isolation of a microcontroller from the motors. Run the digital signals through optocouplers and use an isolated DC-DC converter (such as NMH0505, for example) to supply the power across the isolation barier. This would be the ultimate solution to stop the noise from the motors.
 

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sir
the optical isolation of a microcontroller from the motors use this reference circuit you can use tlp250 also just reffer data sheet of tlp250 if need more on mail to id india_kitcha@yahoo.co.in
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kicha
 

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Thanks for the replies

I have already thought of using optocoupling. My problem is that I dont know of an easy way of sending back an analog signal through optocouplers. Also, it is expensive since I have 24 digital signals from the microcontroller to motor drivers and 8 analog signals back from motor drivers.
 

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Check out the new isolators from analog devices. You can sample them.

h**p://www.analog.com/en/subCat/0,2879,767%255F827%255F0%255F%255F0%255F,00.html
 

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