Feedback signals from its Hall Effect IC provides rotation data and is necessary for proper timing of phase excitation. Advanced brushless motor drivers may offer some unique features that are not available to simple brushed motor controllers, such as stored speed profiles and RS communication.
The feedback and current sensors in brushless motors can provide a torque limiting function that can be useful for tensioning applications. Although initial costs are higher for brushless motors, their benefits should be considered when choosing a motor. Both brushed and brushless motors offer similar performance. Their speed torque curves are the same as below.
For brushed motors, speed and torque can be controlled by varying the input voltage to the motor. However, increased voltage can sometimes increase heat too much and reduce the motor's duty cycle. Brushless motor drivers limit its speed torque curve for the best possible performance, so you can always expect the same great performance every time.
For brushless motors, the driver's excitation sequence needs to speed up in order to rotate the motor faster. While brushless motors are far superior, a brushed motor got the job done for my simple one-off project.
Plus, I didn't know how to build a driver, and I really needed to keep the costs low. Here's the summary of the differences between brushed and brushless motors. While brushed motors are simple and cheaper to operate, they are typically used in applications where long-term life or maintenance is not a major concern.
The brushes are always in contact, so friction will wear them down eventually, and they will need to be replaced periodically. This could dictate unwanted changes in design since motors need to be accessed for maintenance. The only components in contact inside a brushless motor are the ball bearings, so they do not require periodic maintenance.
Brushless motors are also quieter and last longer than brushed DC motors. Brush commutation is also a major source of electrical and audible noise that can affect other electronic signals or require noise reduction measures. Since brushless motors offer higher power efficiency, these motors can be more compact due to high torque to weight ratio and more torque per watt. Brushless motors are becoming more popular than brushed motors. While brushed motors are still commonly used in household appliances and automobiles, brushless motors are more versatile for a wide range of applications from conveyors to AGVs.
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While the technology isn't exactly new, it has gained traction in recent years due to some high-profile releases by Makita, Milwaukee, DeWalt, and others. We love fixing stuff. Let's do it together.
Makita, however, was the first company to use them in power tools. Manufacturers claim that brushless tools have added performance and durability and that they're smarter than the average tool. So what exactly is the technology behind these new motors?
A traditional brushed motor is made up of four basic parts: carbon brushes, a ring of magnets, an armature, and a commutator. The magnets and brushes are stationary, while the armature and commutator rotate together on the motor shaft within the magnets. When the motor is energized, a charge travels from the battery, through the brushes, and into the commutator. The brushes are spring-loaded to maintain physical contact with the commutator. The commutator then passes the charge on to the armature, which is made up of copper windings they look like bundles of copper wire.
The windings are magnetized by the charge and push against the stationary ring of magnets that surround it, forcing the armature assembly to spin. The spin doesn't stop until the charge from the battery stops. A brushless motor loses the brushes and the commutator. Many motion control applications use permanent magnet DC motors.
Since it is easier to implement control systems using DC motors compared to AC motors, they are often used when speed, torque, or position needs to be controlled. As their names imply, DC brushed motors have brushes, which are used to commutate the motor to cause it to spin. Brushless motors replace the mechanical commutation function with electronic control.
In many applications, either a brushed or brushless DC motor can be used. They function based on the same principles of attraction and repulsion between coils and permanent magnets.
DC Brushed Motors image by maxon group. DC motors use wound coils of wire to create a magnetic field. Permanent magnets are used to provide a stationary magnetic field. Normally these magnets are positioned on the inner surface of the stator, outside of the rotor. To make the field rotate, a sliding electrical switch is used.
The switch consists of the commutator, which is typically a segmented contact mounted to the rotor, and fixed brushes which are mounted to the stator. As the rotor turns, different sets of rotor windings are constantly switched on and off by the commutator. Since there is some mechanical friction between the brushes and commutator — and since it is an electrical contact, it generally cannot be lubricated — there is mechanical wear of the brushes and commutator over the lifetime of the motor.
This wear will eventually reach a point where the motor no longer functions. Many brushed motors — especially large ones — have replaceable brushes, typically made of carbon, which are designed to maintain good contact as the wear.
These motors require periodic maintenance. Even with replaceable brushes, eventually the commutator also wears to the point that the motor must be replaced. To drive a brushed motor, DC voltage is applied across the brushes, which passes current through the rotor windings to make the motor spin.
In applications like this, the DC voltage is simply switched on and off to make the motor run or stop. This is typical in low cost applications like motorized toys.
If reversal is needed, it can be accomplished by using a double pole switch. This allows the voltage to be applied to the motor in either polarity, which makes the motor rotate in opposite directions. The motor speed or torque can be controlled by pulse width modulating one of the switches. Brushless DC Motors image by maxon group. Brushless DC motors operate on the same principle of magnetic attraction and repulsion as brush motors, but they are constructed somewhat differently.
Instead of a mechanical commutator and brushes, the magnetic field of the stator is rotated by using electronic commutation. This requires the use of active control electronics. In a brushless motor, the rotor has permanent magnets affixed to it, and the stator has windings. The number of windings used in a brushless motor is called the number of phases. Though brushless motors can be constructed with different numbers of phases, three phase brushless motors are the most common.
An exception is small cooling fans that may use only one or two phases. In either case, there are three wires connecting to the motor, and the drive technique and waveform is identical. With three phases, motors can be constructed with different magnetic configurations, called poles. The simplest 3-phase motors have two poles: the rotor has only one pair of magnetic poles, one North and one South.
Motors can also be built with more poles, which requires more magnetic sections in the rotor, and more windings in the stator. Higher pole counts can provide higher performance, though very high speeds are better accomplished with lower pole counts. To drive a three phase brushless motor, each of the three phases needs to be able to be driven to either the input supply voltage or ground.
There are a number of drive techniques that can be employed for three phase brushless motors. The simplest is called trapezoidal, block, or degree commutation. Trapezoidal commutation is somewhat similar to the commutation method used in a DC brush motor.
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