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Motor is "pumping" under load in current control mode. is this normal?

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etienne
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Motor is "pumping" under load in current control mode. is this normal?

Hello,

I've built an electrical winch for paragliders with a 12kw hub motor. It is operating with a VESC 75/300.

Today we wanted to test it's drag force before we are actually going to use it to launch a real paraglider.

We attached a "Quad" (a motorcycle with 4 wheels) to the line and started pulling. To measure the drag force in kilogram (or daN) we were using heavily the brake of the quad. 

As you can see in this video: https://youtu.be/rusCd4p7q5k
the Motor is pumping /oscillating heavily under load.

When driving backwards under load, the winch was nicely unwinding the line, no issues with oscillation.

Any idea how this pumping / oscillation can be solved?

Thanks in advance for any hints

iv.kravchenko
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VESC is not good in determine the parameters for the heavy engines. 
Tuning is some sort of the art. You even can burn it easy on the current ripple.  I have burned two. 

There are a lot of different reasons.  I would suggest to make the graphs to analyze.

Good luck with that!

iv.kravchenko
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Probably the motor parameters measured during the motor detection are wrong.