SNAS264D April 2006 – February 2024 LM94
PRODUCTION DATA
The fan tach circuitry measures the period of the fan pulses by enabling a counter for two periods of the fan tach signal. The accumulated count is proportional to the fan tach period and inversely proportional to the fan speed. All four fan tach signals are measured within 1 second.
Fans in general do not over-speed if run from the correct voltage, so the failure condition of interest is under speed due to electrical or mechanical failure. For this reason only low-speed limits are programmed into the limit registers for the fans. It should be noted that, since fan period rather than speed is being measured, a fan tach error event occurs when the measurement exceeds the limit value.