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Old 11-26-2018, 12:58 PM   #3311 (permalink)
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Old 11-27-2018, 02:22 PM   #3312 (permalink)
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Thanks guys Looking forward to having a play with one of these controllers after a long absence.
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Is there a detailed description on Pauls software interface for all the individual commands.

I have bought one of pauls Leaf drop in boards so I assume that he has put his same code in this too.

I would initially like to bench test the motor at 60v, do I have tell the controller the battery voltage ?

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Old 12-14-2018, 10:41 AM   #3314 (permalink)
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Is there a detailed description on Pauls software interface for all the individual commands.

I have bought one of pauls Leaf drop in boards so I assume that he has put his same code in this too.

I would initially like to bench test the motor at 60v, do I have tell the controller the battery voltage ?

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The code lists all of the commands, since it interprets the commands from the terminal in order to execute them. It is the running system, so I would trust this over external documentation, since it *HAS* to be up to date.

Paul's controller runs off a separate DC converter, bumping a nominal 12V input to 24V for the control board only. There is no location in the software to actually TELL the software what voltage the system is running.

So - no issue testing at 60V. I've tested down to 24V and it works fine. Lower than 24V the board works fine but the IGBTs you are driving (newer designs) don't work quite right.

The MOSFETs would likely work at 24V and lower .. not sure as I blew up my MOSFETs before I was able to test that sort of thing
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So I am messing around with the AC board and got to a stage where the relays are switching on/off! This is a big first step as I took the long road of soldering the bare board. Now I have come to a point of communicating through what I see as a USB and am having no such luck. Is there a driver I need? I am not sure how to get the communication through serial. Any advice?
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So I am messing around with the AC board and got to a stage where the relays are switching on/off! This is a big first step as I took the long road of soldering the bare board. Now I have come to a point of communicating through what I see as a USB and am having no such luck. Is there a driver I need? I am not sure how to get the communication through serial. Any advice?
Get a USB to serial converter, wire pins 2, 3, and 5 from the converter to the header on the board. I don't remember the pin numbers on the header .. I'll have to look tomorrow when I get home.

Communications is 115,200 baud, no parity, 8 data bits, 1 stop bit. Use a terminal program. Hyperterminal was included for free with XP. I don't think it comes with anything newer. there are many free or cheap programs that will do terminal communications. Many (not all, sadly) USB serial converters have a link to a terminal emulator in their documentation.

When your new board boots up, you should see the firmware version on the screen after a few seconds. If you don't you may have wires backward or not connected well.

From there, you can press enter to get a prompt.
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The Arduino IDE has a serial port monitor and plotter.
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Oh yeah. That too! Thanks for the reminder ... some of us have poor memories
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Haha. Thats great should help me move along just fine. Thanks!
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Ok so this is what I have pinned out from the USB to RS-232 cable to the 2X3 board header:
Pin 2 >> header pin 1 (MISO)
Pin 3 >> header pin 4 (MOSI)
Pin 5 >> header pin 6 (CONTROL_GND)
This gives me a FF or Null in the command prompt. Is this wrong?

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