This Was My University Final Year Project And Dissertation Topic!

3-Phase Motor Condition Monitoring System.

Brief Disclaimer:

Although this code has been uploaded as a "competed" code, it still needs to be tested and improved, and I hereby declared that the code right now can be used as a basis to build upon to produce a fully functioning system.

Goal of the project:

My goal for this project was to have a functioning and viable product for monitoring the condition of two 3-phase motors used in industrial cooling circuits that allow normal operation of high voltage equipment. I planned to make this come to fruition by designing, building and testing a system that was to monitor the drive current, noise, skid vibrations and surface temperatures produced by two motors simultaneously.

How I plan to achieve this goal:

• I have already started by identifying the components that I will use which are (excluding a few others) as follows;
  1. PIC18F13K50 microprocessor
  2. Solid state linear current sensor
  3. Condenser microphone
  4. K type thermocouple
  5. Surface mounted accelerometer microchip
• Although the code for the system is finished in terms of being my university project, I plan to continue working on it until working as a viable product.
• Once the code has been written to a functional level I will be designing a simulated circuit to run and test the code.
• After I have finished the code in the entirety, I will improve the simmulated circuit changing components as required.
• Once the circuit and code have both been refined and made into a viable product I will work on a computer software to communicate with the device to display and log the sensor value.
• After a suitable HMI software has been produce I will make a physical product to test and fine tune the system.

Addition information:

• I indend on converting the communication system to be Ethernet from USB.
• There will no longer be any neccesity to work on this project so it will purely be a hobby.
• This project was started as my university project so earlier (before 04/04/2022) are controlled under their copyright restrictions, newer commits will be changed heavily from the old and will be open source.
• Though this project is now open source, I can claim no liabilty for if you do use it and damage parts! Please read the Terms of use (licencing) below.

Terms of use:

This project is open source and available to all who wish to use, modify or merge copies however, due to the lack of sufficien testing and being a project built as a University final year project further distribution is prohibitted. This project is being supplied "as is" and thus if any persons clone this repository for any purposes all liability lies with them and no warraties of any kind will be provided. If anyone who clones this repository encounters an issue please report it under the issues tab, however no claims against the author can be persued.