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This channel is dedicated to the art of Motion controllers and to show SOLO motor controller capability which is designed to easily run most types of electrical motors like DC motors, Brushless DC motors, Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors and AC Induction Motors. It supports Arduino, Raspberry Pi, ROS, Matlab, LabView and more . SOLO’s specifications are unique and designed for the next generation of users to deliver maximum efficiency in terms of quality, cost, and effort invested in all the projects dealing with motors.
Hi guys, is been a while since I'm following you and I love your company and your passion for motor control. You show 3D printed parts in TPU (flexible), did you use original BambuLab filament or a 3rd party one? Thanks
Hi! Thank you for your comment, we appreciate it very much! We do use TPU the one from Overture and its good. Moreover, we mostly use PLA Matte different colors also produced by Overture, is a good cost/quality choice. And in addition there are standard profiles in bambu slicer for Overture fillaments what makes using of this printer simpler.
Hey, great start to your drill design... I really enjoyed the video. I do have a couple of suggestions for you. 1. You will definitely get less bit wobble if you tighten up the bearing housing tolerances, i.e., making the bearing press fit into the housing will reduce that greatly. Also, having the shaft for the chuck press fit in the OD of the bearings. 2. A v-block or two allows better and more stable work holding in the vise. And centering the bearing to head of the machine as suggested earlier is a good idea too, but i feel that's not your goal currently. 3. Also, how the head of the drill is held on the base is probably causing a slight misalignment on your z axis. As it is not precision bored ... but easily fixable. Again, this is a really awesome video. I enjoyed it a lot.
Absolutely.. for now we are getting experience in the vast world of drone by doing several laboratory test.. we have general use motor controller but the idea to make a specific drone version is here! Thank for the suggestion and feedback!
The principle are common but we dont talk about them directly as we don't privide this solution. But we will evaluate this possibility too! Thank you for your feedback
Without DroneCAN support it will be not very usefull with Ardupilot infrastructure. If you really want to sell your products to UAV / UGV systems, DroneCAN implementation must have, imho.
@@SOLOMotorControllers that's cool. For example there is Zubax company, and they don't support DroneCAN in latest versions of the firmware, don't be like Zubax :)
I think you should also recommend some motors on your website I love your product, I think I will buy it this week for a test bench in which I want to test my DIY mechanisms under different torque and speed conditions. However I cant decide on a suitable motor that would giver me a good range :D Like a low KV value, high torque at lower speeds and so on
@@SOLOMotorControllers please do. I need to design a linear motion system and I would like to buy everything from you. Simplifying my supply chain and even better documentation on the motor & controller integration. That’s the dream. I know many people who buy Odrive because they sell motor and encoder. I love your solution better. I think you have a superior product. Or at least for now you can recommend motors on your blog, like kits but its better if you sell so you can increase revenue
I was given an electric smart car. I both love it and hate it. I would love to use one of these boards to upgrade the traction control. Long-Term plan is to completely replace all of the electronics. I also want to replace the entire wiring system with power over ethernet and/or ethernet overpower. I want to make it plug and play by the time open source AI can drive.
The web based interface is a really cool touch, most others use some kind of windows only software for control, and people who use linux can struggle with those.
Super cool. We're always looking for super precise low speed control with RC crawlers, you might be able to make a nice chunk of change licensing this tech to a crawler ESC manufacturer
Nice demo. Once you have a patent or whatever legal protection on your design, it would be fantastic to have a technical presentation as well. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice project and driver board.I would like to make a remote gear shifter for an manual gearbox,you know an H patern.I would need 2 drivers and what else apart of the encoders to work together and make that H patterns.They will be enough using an arduino board?Thanks
We have article that go deep on this application, feel free to check them or reach us. www.solomotorcontrollers.com/blog/how-to-control-speed-or-torque-of-your-brushless-motor-with-arduino-using-solo-closed-loop/ www.solomotorcontrollers.com/blog/drive-brushless-motor-arduino-open-loop/
Great Work Sir, it was really helpful and thank you for your videos. I just want to know, what is the output of the magnetic brake? can we measure the torque from it?
very good..interesting controller/ sensor system....do you think you can use sensor only? it seems to me a shame to lose some energy in friction with the brake.
Absolutely Possibile! We choose to have a solution not to much invasive, and use both the solutions together to reduce the complexity on risks management, but clearly a lot of other implementation are possible :)
is this possible to control an erob actuator through Arduino uno and a can module mcp2515.The erob actuator uses a can open communication. Already it have a software eTunner (Zeroerr).but i want to control the servo through separate Arduino uno and can module.is it possible, please reply soon
Hi ! Still me.. I made the error to buy the ODESC drive on the same website of the Flipsky motor 7070 and it seems to be a copy of the ODRIVE wich looks cool, but it is not the end application we have for our motor. You have. We are maybe looking to buy a new drive. I wanted to know if you had to play with the P.I.D. of the motor to be able so drill metal ? Ours choke on the lowest torque we apply to de drill. Was kinda dissapointed haha. Thanks !
We give the possibility to optimize the control base on several specific application.. have a look of our Motion Terminal and our website. if you feel we are an interesting match for your application we will be appy to assist you!
Since everyone is always going to do this process every time they wire things up, the software should have a wizard to walk you through the process! With motor disconnected, connect encoder wires, manually rotate (right hand screw rule); software can detect saw tooth; tell used to swap wires if required; connect motor wires; ask for max current etc etc
Thank you for the suggestion, we totally understand the pain here. You can use the "calibration wizard" in Motion Terminal. It's in the section 1.3.2. It's a Software Solution, and we are working on a more robust and complete way directly execute in the firmware, in the core of the Units, fully simplifying this activity.
The design looks sleek. My first impressions: 1. Regarding heat: I notice there is still quite a lot of temperature variation in the enclosure. This indicates that possibly the air inside is not moving much (it should move due to buoyancy forces induced by hot parts). If you're goal is to keep the motor and controller a closed system, the heat sink is of course not going to be as effective but you might still find a benefit of using an internal fan or even orienting the heat sink fins vertically, or redesigning that sink to eject heat to the enclosure. Once that is improved the only other thing you can do is to make the enclosure out of aluminum as well. 2. The tools are definitely not fixed properly, that pulley was vibrating at 10:13 - 10:15. But it seems you knew that. Better to go higher drill speed and slower feed rate. 3. Another question is why you didn't use a thrust bearing, not that it matters much since the double row-bearing you use is very big anyways. Looks very cool.
Thanks for your deep video assessment and high engineering interest! Replying to your comment step by step: 1. The design idea was that. Since the outrunner motor creates air turbulence inside of the enclosure, we decided to use it as the analog of a fan, mounting some rings on it to mimic a Tesla's turbine, however, there's still no air inlet in the drill body, which cause a lack of fresh air flow anyways. In addition, we need to say that the motor magnetizes all the chips produced during drilling, so the air inlet should be covered with another air filter. Thus, this transparent enclosure was mostly designed to show what was happening inside of the drill. For continuous usage, we of course will redesign the covers. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! 2. Yeah, that's true, the tools were not mounted properly, also the drill press has a transversal play, which causes some vibration issues. 3. We went with angular contact double row bearing as the first step toward the CNC head design, so the idea was to build a drill that at some point can withstand not only axial but also transversal loads. Stay tuned there will be something more about this drill!
Thank you brother... it's a nice video... I installed a 48v 500w hub motor set on my 28" city bike... I set the p07 setting to 0001, then the km timer stopped working... I did some research and it shows the number of magnets in the motor, if it is not entered correctly. I learned that the km and distance would not be correct... Then, in the technical specifications of the engine, the magnet size was written as 27x2.3/27x3, so I entered the value 81 for testing purposes... The km meter started to work, but I did not know if it showed the speed and distance correctly... Can you help me on this issue? What should be the p07 value for my engine
Thanks for the comment, To know the number of magnets ( Poles of a BLDC motor) you have to open the motor frame and count the number of magnets on the rotor.
nice project. A pilot drill for drilling your pulleys. certainly a better way to hold the pulley whilst drilling, not the outer edge but the inner dia with v plates.
Thank you Gary, We are now working on improving this drill, the torque needs to be increased to have smoother low-speed performance, stay tuned for the next videos on how we are heading for that goal.
Unfortunately we don't have that motor.. We use to keep changing our motors in order to perform well with different brend and solutions. We hope you will run perfectly your next motor with us!
I understand that this was probably made more as an experiment, but is there actually anything that this machine can do better than a Machinist's Mill? I do realize that there is a rather substantial difference in price between the two, but I'm genuinely curios of what possible advantages there could be. P.S. Centering your part in the vice in reference to the drill and then Clamping down your vice might help some with keeping the drill cutting straight.
Thanks for your curiosity! We didn't think to compete with the milling machine, it of course does have many advantages, starting from a rigid frame, and complex gearbox and finishing with the working table with micro movement possibility. Honestly, we'd like to have one in our studio! 😊 Our idea instead was to design a simple and flexible direct-drive drill with fully controllable speed and torque, to test our latest version of SOLO UNO High Current controller to test it in the worst conditions and for use mostly in our R&D lab. Talking about advantages we'd love to highlight its simplicity, flexibility of speed control, full torque feelings starting from the lowest speed, its lightweight and compact form, and user-friendly Motion Terminal interface in case if user wants to adjust motor control performance. Also, it is quite affordable, so everyone can repeat it and build one drill based on our project for use in a garage or home lab! Regarding the vice fixing recommendation, thank you! We'll try this as soon as new pulleys arrive 😄
Hi from South Africa, new sub, just FYI be carefull for mixed metal water cooling, differnt metals in the loop will react and corrode. I come from a PC water cooling background...and had that happen to me.
I have an old 60's drill press that currently runs a cheap brushless motor and controller from an industrial sewing. You've got me thinking about upgrading it to a configurable controller and quality motor.
Thanks for mentioning this! Yes, we are thinking about the proper positioning and alignment of the drilled parts in vises. Probably for the pulley-type parts machining we better design a mini lathe machine.
Thanks for your comment! We were thinking of testing the controller in the most critical load conditions. But yes, adding a gearbox could be a nice idea for further designs of this drill. Stay tuned to see it soon!
