Chapter 6  Control Modes of Operation|ASDA-A&A+ Series 
6-40     Revision April 2009 
 
External Regenerative Resistor 
When using external regenerative resistor, connect it to P and C, and make sure the circuit between P 
and D is open. We recommend the users should use the external regenerative resistor that the 
resistance value following the above table (Built-in Regenerative Resistor Specifications). We ignore the 
dissipative power of IGBT (Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor) in order to let the users easily calculate 
the capacity of regenerative resistor. In the following sections, we will describe Regenerative Power 
Calculation Method and Simple Calculation Method for calculating the regenerative power capacity of 
external regenerative resistors. 
 
 
Regenerative Power Calculation Method 
(1)  Without Load 
When there is no external load torque, if the servo motor repeats operation, the returned regenerative 
power generated when braking will transmitted into the capacitance of DC bus. After the capacitance 
voltage exceeds some high value, regenerative resistor can dissipate the remained regenerative power. 
Use the table and procedure described below to calculate the regenerative power. 
ASDA-A Series 
Servo Drive (kW) 
Rotor Inertia 
J (kg. m
2
) 
Regenerative power from empty 
load 3000r/min to stop Eo (joule)
Max. regenerative power 
of capacitance Ec (joule)
0.1 0.03E-4  0.15  3 
0.2 0.18E-4  0.89  4 
0.4 0.34E-4  1.68  8 
0.75 1.08E-4  5.34  14 
1.0 2.60E-4  12.86  18 
1.5 3.60E-4  17.80  18 
2.0 4.70E-4  23.24  21 
Low Inertia 
3.0 11.6E-4  57.36  28 
1.0 5.98E-4  29.57  18 
1.5 8.79E-4  43.47  18 
2.0 15.8E-4  78.13  21 
Medium 
Inertia 
3.0 43.3E-4  214.1  28 
 
ASDA-A+ Series 
Servo Drive (kW) 
Rotor Inertia 
J (kg. m
2
) 
Regenerative power from empty 
load 3000r/min to stop Eo (joule)
Max. regenerative power 
of capacitance Ec (joule)
3 54.95  271.73  25 
3.5 54.80  270.98  25 
4.5 
4.5 77.75  384.47  25 
Eo = J x wr
2
/182 (joule)     , Wr : r/min 
 
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