Hi all, first post here, I’m new to the forum! I am an engineering student and for my senior project, I am designing a motor controller for a 7kW (150Vdc) BLDC motor. My group and I are designing custom hardware based on existing requirements (setpoints fed in via the CAN bus, lots of temperature se…

Hey @Alex_Ezzat , Awesome project, please make sure to share with us the final product! I’m sure SimpleFOC will work nicely. @Owen_Williams did the hall sensor implementation, I’m sure he can tell us if this type of sensor would work best for your application.

Hi @David_Gonzalez Thanks so much for the quick response! This is great news, I am really liking how straight forward the SimpleFOC library is (hence the great name!). As a quick follow-up, would this forum be the best place to basically spam questions? Just looking into the library a bit, I one que…

Hey @Alex_Ezzat ! Sorry for not responding to your email. Simplefoc library is a type of a base code which is intended to be suitable for many different mcu+driver+sensor+motor combinations. Due to a large spectrum of hardware some trade ofs have been made. And the idea is really to use it in a way…

Some big motors you have there! The biggest I’ve tried are hoverboard motors which can theoretically do about 400W but i’ve only taken them to 50W. They have hall sensors on them. I’ve also recently used halls with a skateboard motor. Explainer vid here: [3hr electric skate code/build using…

@Antun_Skuric @Owen_Williams Thank you both very much for the responses! For some project context, the motor is being used on a solar-powered race car (if you are interested, our team website is here ). Based on Antun’s response about voltage vs current control, sounds like our best bet may be to sta…

That sounds awesome! Some quick googling suggests a 7kW motor might be able to do 75km/h! We generally suggest starting even simpler than velocity control. Start with openloop (no halls) then move to voltage control (halls but no pid loop) then move to velocity (PI loop). Do you have any hardware …

Yeah the cars are pretty awesome. We focus a ton on aerodynamics so we’re actually able to reach closer to 100km/h at something like 4kW just from the raw efficiency. Thanks for the tips on workflow, sounds like a good plan to me! And yes, we’re definitely planning to start with a much smaller scale…

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