EDN

Fairchild Semiconductor’s Snubberless Triac Drive Optocouplers Simplify Solid State Relay, AC Motor Control and Lighting Ballast Designs

Fairchild Semiconductor provides designers with an easier way to design their motor control, power switch and lighting control applications with random-phase, snubberless triac drive optocouplers. The ...
Electronic Design

Closed-Loop Control Benefits AC Motors

For the PDF version of this article, click here. More than 80% of the motors bought each year continue to be low-cost single-phase ac motors. Because these motors are not very efficient when ...
EDN

Implement an AC-switch triggering circuit using an optical Triac

Several different technologies and designs are available among solid-state switches today. The major families are the standard Triacs (triode for alternating current), the snubberless Triacs, and the ...
Electronic Design

A Multi-Level Approach Makes Understanding Motor Control Easier

Regardless of their primary field, sooner or later, most designers have to deal with motor controls. Broadly speaking, there are two methods to incorporating these components in your design. First, ...
Hackaday

ac motor

Vector Control, also known as Field Oriented Control or FOC is an AC motor control scheme that enables fine-grained control over a connected motor, through the precise control of its phases. In a ...