Hardware and Software of a Bipolar Current Source Controlled by PC

Dragan Milivojević; Zoran Stević; Mirjana Rajčić-Vujasinović

doi:10.3390/s8031977

Hardware and Software of a Bipolar Current Source Controlled by PC

Sensors (Basel). 2008 Mar 22;8(3):1977-1983. doi: 10.3390/s8031977.

Authors

Dragan Milivojević¹, Zoran Stević², Mirjana Rajčić-Vujasinović³

Affiliations

¹ Mining and Metallurgy Institute Bor, ZB 32, 19210 Bor, Serbia. dane@ibb-bor.co.yu.
² University of Belgrade, Technical faculty of Bor, VJ 12, 19210 Bor, Serbia. zstevic@tf.bor.ac.yu.
³ University of Belgrade, Technical faculty of Bor, VJ 12, 19210 Bor, Serbia.

Abstract

This paper describes a realization of a bipolar current source developed by the paper's authors. The source is intended for use in galvanic and other industrial plants, where a pulse-reverse current supply (with the desired shape in time) is required. A prototype of the device, which provides the outcome current intensity up to ± 50 A, has been constructed. The hardware of the source consists of a Pentium IV PC, a commercial ADDA converter, an interface of authors' original construction as well as a current regulator. The application software is developed using a commercial packet LabView as the basis.

Keywords: Bipolar current source; PC control.; application software; hardware; interface.