Can I use a DC sine wave to drive a single phase induction motor?

Gorge asked Dec 21,2020
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I wanted to try building a driver circuit for a small induction motor, using an ATMega328P (i.e. the micro in the Arduino UNO) to generate a 5 kHz PWM signal which changes duty cycle every period using an array of samples from a sine wave, which is then fed into a gate driver that tranfers it into the gate of a power MOSFET, the output of which then goes into a low pass filter to turn into an approximation of a 50Hz sine wave.

The problem with this circuit is that the resulting sine wave will never switch polarity, alternating between +V and GND every 2 half cycles. I've thought about just hooking up one of the motor's leads to V/2 instead of GND but I'm not sure it will work. Will it damage the motor?


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