A control device (1) for operating a load (10) by means of a
pulse width modulated voltage signal through a
cable harness (20) comprising two or more control lines (21, 22, 23), comprising: a
signal generator (30), a plurality of
signal generators (21, 22, 23) for generating the
pulse width modulated voltage signal and feeding the
pulse width modulated voltage signal into a respective one of the control lines (21, 22, 23); a
transformer (40), which has a winding (41, 42, 43) for each of the control lines (21, 22, 23) and a
compensation winding (44); and a
regulator circuit (50), which is designed to regulate the voltage applied on the
compensation winding (44) in order to reduce possible common-mode voltages on the control lines (21, 22, 23). According to the invention, the
regulator circuit (50) is designed to detect the currently applied voltages of the respective voltage
signal on the control lines (21, 22, 23) between the
transformer (40) and the load (10) and to average therefrom as a regulating variable for regulating the voltage applied on the
compensation winding (44). Furthermore, the control device comprises a low-pass filter unit (60, 70), which is designed to supply a
reference variable, which is obtained from a low-pass filtering of a signal, to the
regulator circuit (50) in order to regulate the voltage applied to the compensation winding (44), the signal corresponds to a common mode voltage of a pulse width modulated voltage signal output by the
signal generator (30) onto the control lines (21, 22, 23) or is provided by a
microprocessor unit (80).