On Sat, 22 Apr 2006, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>>> I can't test them for long on a loaded motor of the real system (the
>>> mechanism would wear out quickly) so I used a bunch of
>> lamps for a few
>>> hours, IIRC 2A when at 100%, running at 70% PWM.
>>
>> Lamps won't simulate the inductive properties of a motor.
>
> correct, but any heating due to slow FET switching should be the same?
>
> BTW what would you guys use to simulate a loaded motor? The best I can
> think of is a motor driving a dynamo with a load, but can that be
> transformed to for instance an unloaded motor + a parallel resistor?

A coil in series with a power resistor supplied by an auxiliary psu.

Peter
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