Carl Bugeja | Designing an ESC for my PCB Motor @CarlBugeja | Uploaded October 2018 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
This video shows how i designed my PCB Motor's ESC and what where the challenges involved in getting my speed controller to work.
It has a PIC16F1503 as the main controller and a triple half bridge driver STSPIN230, to control the three phases of the motor. These are both powered from the same supply, to avoid having an extra power wire or on-board regulator, reducing the cost even further. I filtered the digital circuitry supply from an LC filter to attenuate any noise the motor can generate. It can operate from a 5V to 2.6V supply and draws around 220mA in total.
The back emf generated from my pcb motor was too weak to implemented a sensorless speed controller. So i decided to use a hall sensor to provide feedback to the microcontroller which handles the closed loop speed controller.
In the beginning of November I will be giving a demo of this project at the Hackaday Superconference so see you there!
Open source gerber files and schematics for this PCB are available for download:
hackaday.io/project/39494-pcb-motor
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youtube.com/carlbugeja
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This video shows how i designed my PCB Motor's ESC and what where the challenges involved in getting my speed controller to work.
It has a PIC16F1503 as the main controller and a triple half bridge driver STSPIN230, to control the three phases of the motor. These are both powered from the same supply, to avoid having an extra power wire or on-board regulator, reducing the cost even further. I filtered the digital circuitry supply from an LC filter to attenuate any noise the motor can generate. It can operate from a 5V to 2.6V supply and draws around 220mA in total.
The back emf generated from my pcb motor was too weak to implemented a sensorless speed controller. So i decided to use a hall sensor to provide feedback to the microcontroller which handles the closed loop speed controller.
In the beginning of November I will be giving a demo of this project at the Hackaday Superconference so see you there!
Open source gerber files and schematics for this PCB are available for download:
hackaday.io/project/39494-pcb-motor
Social Media
youtube.com/carlbugeja
twitter.com/BugejaCarl
instagram.com/bugeja.carl
Music
soundcloud.com/artificial-music
