Pardon the dumb question as I’m a complete beginner to this field.
I have a 1 HP DC motor that I’m currently manually controlling using a Dayton 1F792 DC Speed Control unit. I want to automate the following task:
Any ideas on how I would implement this? Here are some of my thoughts/considerations:
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
I have a 1 HP DC motor that I’m currently manually controlling using a Dayton 1F792 DC Speed Control unit. I want to automate the following task:
- Starting from rest, increase the motor speed linearly to some final speed (normally, this would manually be done by simply turning the knob on the Dayton unit)
- Maintain that final speed
- When a certain sensor condition is met (e.g., distance measured using some rotary position sensor), slow the motor speed linearly back to rest
Any ideas on how I would implement this? Here are some of my thoughts/considerations:
- I probably need some industrial microcontroller, especially given that sensor feedback is needed. In a low-voltage scenario, this entire task would be fairly easy to do with just an Arduino, but given that I’m working with ~200 V, I’m unsure of what exactly I need.
- As a side note, I'd also like to know if the Dayton 1F792 unit I'm working with powers the motor with PWM or if it uses some sort of high-voltage potentiometer
- I also have a 1 HP AC motor that I could also use, but to my knowledge, using that would require a VFD and a PLC/PID (???). This introduces more complications (e.g., programming the PID/PLC using ladder logic which I am unfamiliar with) that I would rather avoid if it can be helped.
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!