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Current Sensing Quality and Switching Timing

In BLDC control, smooth motion often depends on details that are easy to miss early.

October 2, 2025 ยท 7 min

Current Sensing Quality and Switching Timing

Current sensing in motor control is not just a number for the algorithm. It shapes every control-loop decision, and small noise or timing errors can become vibration, heat, or position error.

Treat the sensing path as a system

Shunt placement, ground routing, input filtering, and sampling timing should be designed together. Fixing them after the PCB is finished is usually more expensive.

Test under real load

A motor without load behaves differently from the real machine. Test with load changes, speed changes, and a few fault scenarios before trusting the result.