DRV8302 driver with Arduino UNO

DRV8302 is a high performance BLDC driver board capable of delivering 15A current continuously and 27A peak current. It has temperature and over-current protection, it has Back EMF and three phase current sensing and last but not the least it can be run using only 3PWM signals making it compatible with the SimpleFOClibrary.

Here is an example of the connection scheme using the Arduino UNO:

You can find this board on Aliexpress for the price of ~35$

DRV8302

• As any other BLDC driver supported with this library the board receives 3PWM signals: pwm a,b and c. Connect them to INHA, INHB and INHC
• Additionally connect the enable pin as well to EN-GATE pin
• To configure the BLDC driver we will need three pins (purple)
  • M_PWM when high enables 3PWM mode (if low the board expects 6PWM signals)
  • M_OC when low enables over-current protection
  • OC_ADJ analog input adjusting the over-current limit - if you don’t care you can put it to high
• To read the fault signals we will need to read two pins (red)
  • nFAULT when in high board in fault state
  • nOCTW when in high over-current limit reached

Encoder

• Channels A and B are connected to the external interrupt pins 2 and 3
• If your encoder has index signal you can connect it to any available digital pin, here we connected it to the pin 4

Motor

• Motor phases a, b and c are connected directly the board terminals OUTA, OUTB and OUTC

Example connection

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