Electronic Circuits Forum

Electronic circuit & projects discussion forum for Electronic enthusiasts to share and discuss. Place to discuss about electronic circuits, projects and hobby stuff.


DC motor control, flipping polarity though processor

Discuss about electronic circuits here. Request help for circuits that you couldn't find anywhere else, how a circuit works etc. Discuss anything related to electronic circuits.

Moderator: pebe

DC motor control, flipping polarity though processor

Postby DanielB33 » Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:06 pm

I have to finish designing a basic circuit to control life cycle testing. Most of my work is on the processor, which I have up and running. I have 5-40V in to a buck boost converter with a steady 12V out to heavy duty solid state relay. When the relay is activated, it works in parallel with a FET to drive our actuators at a given PWM. My question is, how do I use the processor to control flipping polarity??? I need to be able to have someone enter various data though hyper terminal to change duty cycle, etc. With my set up, the actuators will only go one direction. I could easily set this up to happen manually with a mom-off-mom DPDT switch or with 4 solenoids, but I know this is not how things are done a in these applications. What do people normally do?

I assume I use some kind of amazing voltage activated DPDT switch with 2 voltage inputs to toggle poles?

(min current coming out of buck boost converter is 0.5A, relay board needs to run 2 actuators at 12, 24 or 28V each, max 30A load for each actuator.)

Thanks much
DanielB33
 
Posts: 1
Joined: Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:02 pm

Return to Electronic Circuits Help



Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 2 guests