Jim said:

> I need to drive eight brushless DC motors (on board a robot)
> and deliver a lot of power to them (100-200W each). I also
> need to decide the wiring topology (e.g. some sort of bus
> would be nice from a cable run point of view, while a star
> seems better for other reasons). Can you recommend a good
> reference text on motor drives or power electronics or
> something like that? I feel like I understand the basic
> principles but not the potential "gotchas" involved in
> cramming this much current through cables.

Check out these two sites:
H-bridge motor control-
http://www.4qdtec.com/bridge.html
Open Source Motor Control project-
http://www.robot-power.com/

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