[[Manual: Detailed.Output.Flyback.Tune]]
Warning
Don't apply MegaManual's 75% "PWM Current Limit %" ("PWM DC %" or PWM duty)recommendation. 75% is suitable for a remarkably bad flyback design (with flyback return 30V referenced to GND5), that dissipates extreme heat with PWM-ing and induces high voltages, should the injector fuse break. The circuit breaks regularly because of overheating (usually the clamping PNP breaks, sometimes the FETs).
Example calculation for PWM DC% (dcpercentage):
Iinj * Rinj = VBatt * dcpercentage/100 - Uflyback * (1-dcpercentage/100)
From this, for Iinj=1A and Rinj=3Ohm, with some primary-school math:
- 3V = 14.5V * x - 5.5V * (1-x)
- 3V = 14.5V * x - 5.5V + 5.5V * x
- 3V = 20V * x - 5.5V
- 8.5V = 20V * x
- x = 0.425 (which is for dcpercentage=43% )
Verification: at Uflyback = 5.5V and PWM DC=43% you get 1.03 A:
1.03 A * 3 Ohm = 3.1V = 14.5V * 0.43 - 5.5V * (1-0.43)
Measurement
When you measure injector current:
- take care not to open the flyback path. This is very important
- take out the fuse, and measure there
- either 20A DC mode
- or 1 or more 0.1 Ohm 5W resistors in parallel: in this case 2V DC voltage (not current!) mode
- take care not to kill yourself
- the injector pulsewidth (or injector duty: beware, it is very different from injector PWM duty!) must be included in the calculation
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