Motor Controller for Switched Reluctance Motors

sofiane Fahas

Hello I'm a student in electrical engineering and i need the driver controller to control my switched Reluctance Motor,

i found an exactly system for my motor type in Spectrum Digital Company manufactured specially for the TI microcontroller (DMC1500, complete driver with power electronic part) , unfortunately they told me they stop production, because it was manufactured for the DSP F240 series and now it is obsoleted, and i didn't found at now in the TI driver kit, one for drive a switched reluctance Motor. And I was frustrated because TI produce many drivers like "Piccolo F2805x High Voltage Motor Control Developer's Kit " for different DC and AC motors, except the SR motor, and the question is why?

could you please help me with that please, it since more than one year, I search the driver for my motor (110DCV, 5 A) the motor characteristics are exactly like those one mentioned in the SPRA420A.pdf TI document

Thank you so much in advance and best regards.

Sofiane

Phd Student

over 10 years ago

0 Nicholas Oborny over 10 years ago

TI__Mastermind 21320 points

Hi Sofiane,

I am moving your post to the C2000 Motor Control forums. They can provide the best answer.

0 ChrisClearman over 10 years ago

TI__Guru** 119680 points

Sofiane,
We haven't released any tool or software on SR motors in some time. In the mid-late 90s they were "the next big thing", but really never took off. Over the last few years we've seen increased R&D work from some segments of our customers...we see there is starting to be some demand, though still aren't many products in the market using SR motors (except in very low cost appliances and specialty automotive applications). We are starting to do some work on this topic, but I doubt that you will see any sort of official TI Kit / Solution for SR motors in 2016.

0 sofiane Fahas over 10 years ago in reply to ChrisClearman

Intellectual 280 points

Hello Chis,

than you don't know in the market, how's the company actually manufactured the driver-inverter for that sort of motor?

thank you and have a nice day,

Sofiane

0 ChrisClearman over 10 years ago in reply to sofiane Fahas

TI__Guru** 119680 points

I'm not aware of any vendors who are selling programmable inverters for SR drives.

companies like ABB of course sell drive + motor packages.

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Motor Controller for Switched Reluctance Motors