Timeline for How to Power a Controller and Motor Driver off same 24V source
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| Mar 10, 2016 at 1:55 | comment | added | Robherc KV5ROB | @KiwiOnTheShore If the motor drivers don't have any protection against inductive spikes backfeeding into the power supply when the motors start/stop, you should probably put a few zener/tvs protection diodes between the buck converter's power pins & the motor controller's power pins, to clamp any back-spikes that might try to hit you. Also, a couple good-sized (>=1mF) reserve caps across the buck converter's supply pins will help buffer the voltage drop when the motors first start up. | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 1:12 | comment | added | KiwiOnTheShore | very clear thanks, and in terms of wiring, it's fine to run the driver and buck converter in parallel, I'm quite new to visualizing the flow of current and get the impression that when the motors are put under load/stall and draw current, is there any chance of the buck converter and arduino getting surged? | |
| Mar 10, 2016 at 0:59 | vote | accept | KiwiOnTheShore | ||
| Mar 9, 2016 at 5:05 | history | answered | Robherc KV5ROB | CC BY-SA 3.0 |