In the electric vehicle (EV) era, thermal management remains a critical challenge. German automotive supplier Continental has ...

In the first installment of this series, "Calculating a practical hotspot safety margin", we discussed how two-parameter thermal models assume that the entire motor, including windings, exhibits one ...

As previously mentioned, the feedback sensors include position sensors to track the rotor’s location, current sensors to measure the motor phase currents, voltage sensors to monitor the DC bus voltage ...

Don't let failing oxygen sensors compromise your engine's performance. O2 sensors are critical to emissions control on your car, SUV or truck. As the name implies, the O2 sensor (also called an ...

This application note presents BLDC motor control using sensor sinusoidal PWM modulation with Z32F128 microcontroller. It also discusses ways on how to implement sinusoidal PWM modulation and ...

What’s being described as an “onboard weather station,” the 3.6L twin-turbo LF3 V6 engine launching in the 2014 Cadillac XTS Vsport and 2014 CTS Vsport this fall is equipped with a set of sensors that ...

Whether you're a motor designer/builder or buyer/user, understanding how the efficiency of brushless DC motors is improved with the use of Hall-effect sensors is important to your building and/or ...

Last month, we kicked this series off by showing you how to save some money by diagnosing a bad MAP sensor rather than just chucking cash at new parts that may or may not fix a specific problem. This ...

Got a brain and a decent set of hand tools? If the answer is yes, then consider yourself capable of fixing most of the common maladies your Jeep is sure to experience over its lifecycle. By design, ...