SLLU363 may 2023 MCF8315A
Protecting the power supply from drawing higher current or potential voltage overshoots is important in battery operated applications or applications that do not have an internal overcurrent or overvoltage protection built into the power supply.
Step 1: When the load on the motor increases, device draws higher current from the power supply. For applications that want to limit the current drawn from the power supply, the recommendation is to Enable Bus current limit [BUS_CURRENT_LIMIT_ENABLE] and configure the Bus current limit [BUS_CURRENT_LIMIT] to protect the power supply from drawing higher current.
For example, the requirement to limit the current drawn from power supplies such as batteries as the battery life depends on the charge or discharge cycles. Enabling bus current limit limits the power supply current by limiting the speed of the motor.
Step 2: When a command is issued for the motor to decelerate, based on the deceleration rate, the energy from motor pumps back to the power supply, increasing the supply voltage to possibly unsafe levels for electronics. Enable the Antivoltage surge [AVS] to protect the power supply from voltage overshoots which overrides any deceleration limit set by any other register and automatically apply a safe deceleration rate.
Figure 3-3 shows overshoot in power supply voltage when AVS is disabled. Motor decelerates from 100% duty cycle to 10% duty cycle at a deceleration rate of 70,000 Hz/sec. Figure 3-4 shows no overshoot in power supply voltage when AVS is enabled.