Tutorial SMC3 Arduino 3DOF Motor Driver and Windows Utilities

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Can you use a h bridge like this with smc3? Seems to have two connections less than the motomonster Put max 30a but those mosfet hold 110a, I just do not understand that

Found a BUG with SMC3. FPWM is crewed up when starting the SMCUTIL app.
Example:
SMC Mode2 with IBT-2
Configuration saved with FPWN 5kHz for Motor1, motor make a whining and is able to turn on lower MINPWM.
In smcutil , it shows 5kHz . Ok so far.
-CLose smcutil.
-All good, motor work and sound as expected (they are still at 5kHz)
-Start back SMCutil. Sound disapear and motor is not able to turn. SMCUtill still show 5kHz.
-Set FPWN at 10 and back at 5kHz , and now its working as intended at 5kHz.

So there seem to be an issue on start of the SMCUtil tool that affect the FPWN.

If the POT signal is too noisy it can sometimes register a reading outside the limits range even though it doesn't appear to move to this range. The chart does not display every sample.

Try to twist the three wires to the POT together. Keep them away from the motor power wires. You could try using shielded wire. If you have a CRO or DSO have a look at the signal quality from the POT. It should be stable and smooth. Sometimes low quality POTs are noisy because the contacts don't continously make contact. You could put a capacitor between the POT signal wire and GND close to the Arduino to help filter noise. You could modify the Arduino code to average the ADC samples.

Make sure you have good GND connections between everything.

Thanks for your suggestions, it seems to have helped as we didn't had the problem yesterday with our testing.
Now,only need to force 5khz to motor 1 via Arduino code since smcutil seems to.have an issue on start with fpwm.
Ever considered making the utility open-source?

Yes I've been asked that before but that source code is on an old computer packed away - I've been too busy(lazy?) to set it up again.

It doesn't make sense that it is related to SMC3Utils anyway because the settings are saved in Arduino EEPROM. Just had a quick look at the SMC3 arduino code that is posted and I think the problem is the call to ReadEEProm(); needs to be added to the beginning of the Setup() function. At the moment it is in the start of the main loop after the timers are initialised.

Ill see with the Arduino code then, it just weird that the issue happens when starting SMCUtil and not when "starting/plugging" the arduino.
I thought that it could have been that SMCUtil reads the config on start and maybe did an apply of this config and was applying it incorrectly on start. (or something along this.).
Anyway, ill do some testing with your suggestion.
Thanks for your time , i'll post back if the issue is fixed.

No SMC3Utils doesn't write anything to arduino until you change a setting. It does reset the arduino on startup though.

Ok it must be like you say then, it's probably on the arduino code.
Thanks for your time !
btw, is there a way to make a donation to you for your software? as a programmer myself (Display Driver Uninstaller aka DDU) I would appreciate sending you a beer for your hard work and support

HaHa, thanks for the offer but I did this one for my own interest so just enjoy it!

I have tried your suggestion and it work as expected now. Thanks !

Thanks for testing, I have added a new version to the first post with this change and the fix for the motor 2 and 3 min cut off limits bug. I haven't tested it myself but was a straight forward change so should be OK.

Hi, how do you connect the POT that controls the intensity of the total movement?

Noorbeast,
Don't see the correlation - Pots IMHO are to send back data as to crankarm position / and / to allow for sending error-correction data??

cthiggin

The question part that threw me in his thread: controls the intensity of the total movement

• AN5 used for POT scaling input?? this is? I do not understand the an5 I'm sorry, I do not know the connection that needs to be done

Sorry my english, I think I'm not explaining well, the pot that does not connect to the arduino is the one in version 0.7, limit the total movement of the sim

EDIT and deleted due to languages issues