I've been working with the HVKit for several weeks running a Baldor 170V, 0.5HP BLDC.
It's turning a wheel which is 14" diameter and weighs 11lbs... up to 3000rpm (altho I've only tried that once!).
I'm quite satisfied with everything so far (HVKit, SpinTac GUI, 28069MISO CCard)... operation of the motor is quite smooth once the motor is ID'd and inertia set. Little to no overshoot/undershoot when changing speed.
However, decelerating even a modest amount, say from 800rpm to 500rpm, causes the DC bus voltage to EXCEED 450V in a matter of ~2 seconds... that's without using the PFC section of the HVkit. I've got a variac on the 120VAC, and jumper the rectified AC directly over to the Inverter stage. I've already replaced numerous fuses, and even a few of the in-rush current limiters.
I assume the HVKit was not really designed to deal with dissipating the energy from a rotating mass...
Thus, any suggestions on how to go about this in my design, and/or, anything I can do in software to limit the DCBus from exceeding some set V?
Thanks,
-Mark