Employing variable speed motor drives gives an opportunity to have more sophisticated control programs. This enhances the appliance performance and increases overall energy efficiency. Thus home ...

Traditionally, DC motors have been used in precise speed control applications because of their ability to provide acceleration and deceleration from a dead stop position to full speed fairly easily.

IR-SA Integrated Technologies, a collaboration between International Rectifier (IR) and Sanyo Semiconductor, will design, develop, and market variable-speed motor-drive power modules. These ...

As shown in Figure 1, a VFD has three main components: an AC to DC power converter; a DC filter, and a DC to AC pulse-width-modulated inverter that is factory built and tested in an enclosure with ...

The topic of motors and motor control techniques is wide and varied. Part one of this two-part article will cover the principles of alternating-current (AC) motor operation and control. Part two will ...

Developed by Farnell element14, the S12ZVML-MINIBRD variable speed motor control kit is based on the Freescale S12 MagniV. It includes both the hardware and software needed to get a variable speed ...

CHICAGO, USA: As part of its growing development kit offering, Newark element14 has partnered with Freescale to launch the MagniV S12ZVML-MINIBRD variable speed motor control development kit.