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Old 12-09-2014, 10:34 PM   #2 (permalink)
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If it's a 3 phase permanent magnet brushless DC with an encoder, then yes! Well, the AC board I recently did can drive that no problem with field oriented control. You would need 3 dual igbts, 2 current sensors, a film capacitor, and a control/driver board. I just finished 2 prototypes that should be good to 150kw. It is tested on an AC induction motor. I just got a brushless motor for testing, but it needs an encoder.

The regen is easy peasy. If you have a throttle that goes both ways, with center being zero throttle, then you just command negative throttle while going forward to regen. The throttle commands torque, so if you want lots of torque, just twist it a lot. If you want lots of regen, just turn it lots the other way.
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