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A variable speed AC motor control drive system for use in devices such as treadmills and including a module to sense the voltage of the line voltage provided to the system and adjusting the pulse width modulated signals provided to the AC motor in response thereto as well as providing a module for s

A variable speed AC motor control drive system for use in devices such as treadmills and including a module to sense the voltage of the line voltage provided to the system and adjusting the pulse width modulated signals provided to the AC motor in response thereto as well as providing a module for sensing the load placed on the AC motor by monitoring the bus voltage of the system and providing a signal representative of the load such that the duty cycles of the pulse width modulated signals are varied in accordance with the line voltage of the system and the load on the AC motor to maintain the desired motor speed.

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An AC motor controller system having a sensed input line voltage and said controller system being configured for use with a treadmill having a walk belt, said controller system including: a treadmill controller module for controlling the operational parameters of said treadmill; said treadmill contr

An AC motor controller system having a sensed input line voltage and said controller system being configured for use with a treadmill having a walk belt, said controller system including: a treadmill controller module for controlling the operational parameters of said treadmill; said treadmill controller module including an adaptive bus scaling module therein; a microprocessor module for receiving an input signal from said adaptive bus scaling module wherein said input signal is representative of said sensed input line voltage of said AC motor controller system; a predriver module for receiving input from said microprocessor module and said microprocessor module providing pulse width modulated signals to said predriver module and said predriver module converts said pulse width modulated signals to high and low gate drive signals; a current sense module for sending output signals to said predriver module and said predriver module further receiving signals from said current sense module which represent sensed current signals in at least a portion of said AC motor controller system and a driver module for receiving said high and low gate drive signals from said predriver module; said driver module including switches therein which are switched in response to said high and low gate drive signals from said predriver module; an AC drive motor for receiving said switched high and low gate drive signals from said driver module; and said current sense module sensing the current of said signals between said driver module and said AC drive motor and providing a signal to said predriver module responsive to said sensed current to enable said predriver module to adjust said high and low gate drive signals in response thereto.