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Tutorial How to mod a 12V 90A PSU

Discussion in 'Electronic and hardware generally' started by RacingMat, Mar 14, 2015.

  1. RacingMat

    RacingMat Well-Known Member Gold Contributor

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    Hi @gigi
    you can do 2 things:
    - measure the peak with a multimeter with peak memory. That would be factual. Maybe your motor zyt90 23A - 40Apeak is not really 40A peak ;)

    - add a capacitor
    yours
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    Hallo,
    Thanks for your reply.
    I measured 28 A when I inverted the direction of the engine
    Probably the psu does not tolerate any kind of rush
    I also tried installing a 1.5 ohm 100W resistance in voltage clamp but the situation has not changed
    The only way to avoid the peak current of the psu is to mount a battery in parallel
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    RacingMat Well-Known Member Gold Contributor

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    as the peak is very short, the measure depends highly on the sampling of your multimeter... it's maybe more

    Yes, resistance is useless in this case but battery or capacitor would be fine.

    Keep going :)
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    Thank you RacingMat for a realy good information..I did all good to start with my Awf 11Dc 1400 W ie. Shorted pin no. 11 and 12 and psu started well but I short another 2 pins in amoung that 8 pins and my psu got shut down:( and after that now only one light of psu is getting on and one fan is running and there is no power supply even I shorted pin 11 and 12. Please help me how will I start it again?
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    I tell my experience: I use for my simulator, arduino and sabertooth 2x32, with 2 24v engines, 2 power supplies put in parallel 600pb dps with the modification of one of them of the earth, to make the simulator work quite satisfactorily I modified the pid in the Arduino code making the movements slightly more docile, without taking away the pleasure of the simulation. only in some cases one of the power supplies goes into protection, and I immediately resolve by switching off and on again.
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    questo è uno dei miei motori.;)
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    Dear,
    Accodring to the label on PSU, red pin it is +12VL which is limited to the 14.6A. You should use only yellow one.