I'm trying to control the motor speed with an Arduino on a Hobie Cat eVolve kayak motor. Like this: Hobie evolve | Hobie
The throttle lever uses an AS5045 magnetic rotary encoder to read the throttle position and sends that info to the eVolve's microcontroller using the AS5045's synchronous serial interface.
To control the motor speed I was trying to simulate the serial response from the AS5045 with an Arduino Mega and send that to the eVolve's microcontroller. However, I haven't been able to get the eVolve to read the correct response and get an error E23 "Value Range False". Which I think means the value it's interpreting is out of the ~2000 to 4095 expected value range of the 12bit encoder.
I'm not sure if the Arduino is fast enough to simulate this response or if my code (hopefully) is just really bad, 
. Any suggestions or ideas on simulating this output or another method of controlling the motor's speed are welcome.
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The unsuccessful code is:
#include <digitalWriteFast.h>
const int ledPin = 13;
const int clockPinin = 0; //Interrupt connected to Torqeedo control clock
const int CSnPinin = 8; //output to chip select, data output initiated when CSn goes low
const int outputPin = 3; //Simulate AS5045 response pinint y = 0; // Bit counting variables
long motorSpeedBinary = 240935; //Start with motor stopped 111010110100100111void setup()
{
pinMode(CSnPinin, INPUT); // CSn -- has to toggle high and low to signal chip to start data transfer
pinMode(outputPin, OUTPUT); // SDA//Attach the interrupt to the clock pin and monitor for rising voltage
//When clock starts switching data is being sent across serial.
attachInterrupt(clockPinin, motorSpeed, RISING);
}void loop()
{
if (!digitalReadFast(CSnPinin) && y == 0) {
pinMode( outputPin, OUTPUT ); // Exit tri-state mode
digitalWriteFast(outputPin,HIGH); // Initialize output pin to high to signal serial data transfer starting.
}
else if (digitalRead(CSnPinin)) { // Csn pin is high so no data is being sent through serial
//When not sending data put output pin in tri-state mode
digitalWrite( outputPin, LOW );
pinMode( outputPin, OUTPUT ); // now we're sourcing current, i.e. GND
pinMode( outputPin, INPUT ); // now we're tri-stated
}}
void motorSpeed()
{
if (y <18){
digitalWriteFast(outputPin,bitRead(motorSpeedBinary, 17-y)); //Send data through serial bit by bit
y++; //Increment bit to be sent
}
if (y>17) { //Last bit has been sent get ready for next transfer.
y = 0;
}
}
I have been able to read the values from the AS5045 using this:
#include <digitalWriteFast.h>
const int clockPinin = 0; //Interrupt connected to clock
const int CSnPinin = 8; //output to chip select
const int outputPin = 3; //read AS5040
const int progPin = 9; //Programming pin attached to AS5045int inputstream = 0; // one bit read from pin
long packeddata = 0; // two bytes concatenated from inputstreamint y = 0;
//Timer variables
unsigned long oldTime = 0;
unsigned long newTime =0;void setup()
{
Serial.begin(115200);
pinMode(CSnPinin, INPUT); // CSn -- has to toggle high and low to signal chip to start data transfer
pinMode(outputPin, INPUT); // SDA
pinMode(progPin,INPUT);//Attach the interrupt to the clock pin and monitor for rising voltage
attachInterrupt(clockPinin, motorSpeed, RISING);
}void loop()
{}
void motorSpeed()
{
//Increment through incomming data and read into variable
if (y<18){
inputstream = digitalReadFast(outputPin); //Read current bit
packeddata = ((packeddata << 1) + inputstream); //Save recent bit into the packeddata variable
y++;
}
if (y>17){Serial.print("Cs:");
Serial.print(digitalReadFast(CSnPinin));
Serial.print(" Prog:");
Serial.print(digitalReadFast(progPin));
Serial.print(" Data:");
Serial.println(packeddata,BIN);
y = 0;
packeddata = 0;
}
}