PWM Motor control

[Stanislav]

Hello, I am working on an application based on the "Motor control example". However instead of just setting two different values for the duty cycle I am trying to either increase or decrease it for every button press. I am still using both PPI channels to toggle an LED once when it reaches CC[0] (to set the duty cycle) and once to finish a complete period CC[1]. This is what I have placed in the main fuction while loop:

   while (true)
 {
    btn0_nstate = nrf_gpio_pin_read(BUTTON_0);
       if ((btn0_ostate == 1) && (btn0_nstate == 0))
	  {
		LED_INTENSITY +=10;
		if (LED_INTENSITY > 250)
		 {	
			LED_INTENSITY  = 10;
		 }

		pwm_set(LED_INTENSITY );
       }
      btn0_ostate = btn0_nstate;
 }

What I observe with an oscilloscope is that the program runs as expected for some time but then at a random time it seems that the signal toggles when it is not supposed to. This makes low values for the intensity to be represented with high duty cylce and vice versa. Thank you in advance and I am looking forward for some help.

[Stefan Birnir Sverrisson]

Hi

Rather use the pwm library available on Github.

[Stanislav]

Hello Stefan, Thank you for your response after which I manage to have what I wanted. However, what I saw now is that the PWM signal looks fine for the first three modes: PWM_MODE_LED_100, PWM_MODE_LED_250, PWM_MODE_LED_1000. If I use faster clock in either of PWM_MODE_MTR_255 and PWM_MODE_BUZZER_255, there are still unexpected changes in polarity after which the signal duty cycle starts decreasing.

[Stefan Birnir Sverrisson]

I have reported your feedback to the implementer of the library. The polarity change was an issue in the library few weeks ago but it was supposed to be fixed. The implementer will try to look at the library again in order to fix the issue. I can not promise anything on the timing but hopefully we will have some update on the PWM library on Github next week. If not, respond on this thread in order to notify me.

[Stanislav]

Hello Stefan, is there any progress with finding the problem?

[Stefan Birnir Sverrisson]

Hi Stanislav. The Github project on Github has not been updated. I can't say when or if it will be updated in order to address the issue. There is a PWM example available in the latest nRF51 SDK 8.1.0. Could that example fulfill your purpose?