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RB-Rop-06 ''OSMC'' 160A, 13V to 36V Motor Controller

The OSMC is a high-power H-bridge circuit designed to control permanent magnet DC motors. It was designed expressly as a motor control for robot combat in competitions such as BattleBots and the like. However the attributes of a controller for such an environment are suitable for a wide range of commercial or industrial motor control applications. The OSMC can drive a wide variety of motors and other loads and is easy to mount and interface to a variety of microcontroller units. The low-cost OSMC is also easy to modify or repair if needed.

The OSMC power unit has the following specifications and features:
Supply voltage Output Current (continuous) Output Current (surge) Weight MOSFETs On Resistance Cooling Bridge Driver Logic Interface RC Interface Power Supply Current Limiting Connectors 13V to 50V (36V max battery rating) 160A >400A 0.6 lb 16 ea. IRFB3207 (or IRF1405 on older units) .0026 ohm max at 25C 40 CFM fan Intersil HIP4081A 10-pin dual-row header External via logic interface 12V .5A regulator Optional Add-on Solder pads for up to 10 ga wire or #8 bolts

The OSMC is a simple H-bridge power amplifier. It does not have any on-board logic to interpret RC or other commands. An external logic interface is required to translate command inputs into the PWM signals needed to drive the board. This increases system complexity somewhat but also increases flexibility as the OSMC board may be driven by any microcontroller or other signal source that can provide PWM and Enable logic. One of the major advantages of separating the power section of the controller from the logic interface section is to allow the power units to be paralleled for special applications. One exciting application of this is to use two OSMC boards on a single interface channel to control high-powered four-brush motors such as the MagmotorTM or AstroflightTM motors. By using a special interface cable the OSMC can control these 4-brush motors at twice the current of a single power unit. That gives a continuous current capability of over 300A! The image to the right shows a MOB controlling 2 OSMC boards driving a four inch Magmotor. Stall testing with this motor and 24V of Hawker batteries showed no appreciable heating of the OSMC boards. Another option for this method of driving two OSMC power units from one RC interface channel is to drive a slaved pair of motors from each channel. This allows 4-wheel drive robots to run a slaved pair of motors on each side of the robots with only a single RC interface. In fact, this method has been successfully used with three OSMC boards per channel for a six-wheel drive robot.

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