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Setting up an IBL2403 motor driver

I received an shiny new IBL2403 the other day: However, I've been having difficultly using the EasyMotion Studio software that comes with it. When I try and set up the driver for the first time, ...
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L293D Question About Grounding

I am using the L293D to run two motors, and am controlling it via an ATmega328. I am a bit confused about how grounding works. I was following this tutorial, and searched this question a lot, but am ...
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Input rated current for easydriver 4.4

I am using easydriver 4.4 to control stepper motor. Easy driver takes input voltage from 7 to 30V. I fed 20V 3.0A to easydriver, but i got it burnt (easydriver)*. Is 3.0A too much for easydriver ? ...
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Why are the pins on the official arduino motor shield so long?

Here is the Official Motor sheild website. The shield has pin connectors at the bottom that are 2x longer than on any other shield I've seen. Why is that?
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High voltage H-bridge diode

i'm designing a varable-frequency drive with 2 H-bridges based on IR2108 half-bridge drivers. I want it to drive a 220v single-phase motor. Reading the datasheet i got a little confused on choosing ...
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How to use a SN75441 h-bridge in conjunction with an arduino

I am trying to use a SN75441 h-bridge in conjunction with an arduino in order to drive a DC motor forward and backward. Let me describe the setup and then the problem I am encountering. I have an ...
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BLDC Motor Driver Losses

That was a pdf when originally uploaded, but am now going to try to zoom in on the sub-circuits. Please let me know if there's a better way to do this. I'm trying to make a PIC-based BLDC motor ...
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How to use a SN75441 h-bridge (not working as expected)

I am trying to figure out how to use an SN75441ONE h-bridge. I have it hooked up like this: Pins 1, 8 and 16 are connected to the positive rail (+5 V). Pins 4, 5, 12 and 13 are connected to ground. ...
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What motor driver should I use based on amps?

I am building a robot that sports 2 motors ripped from an old RC car. After many attempts to find the data sheets, nothing of use turned up. So, I ran some test and found this out about the motors. ...
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how choose transistor for driver circuit of stepper motor?

I need to drive a 1A stepper motor coil from a digital output that can source only 5mA. That would require Hfe of 1A / 5mA = 200, but I can't find a transistor with that much gain. Is there any ...
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how to construct stepper motor driver?

I am going to do one project in labview my requirement is to control the stepper motor in following way while pressing one button in front panel the stepper motor should run in one direction in ...
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how do i drive the h bridge to control a motor?

I am using the ZXMHC3F381N8 MOSFET H-Bridge to drive a motor forwards and backwards. I am using a PIC16F1946. The H bridge is connected to PORTE of the PIC. This is the code I am using to set up the ...
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Galvanic separation between a microcontroller and a motor driver

Is it possible to achieve galvanic separation between a microcontroller and this driver . It's a dual full bridge driver and I'm going to parallel it's outputs (consequently the inputs and the sense ...
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With the case of stepper motors, what correlates to the max RPM of the individual unit?

I'm looking at a few different stepper motors for an engineering project I'm working on, and I'm attempting to tease out any correlations that a stepper motor's stats would have with its maximum ...
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DC Motor driver with Arduino

I made a simple motor driver as suggested here ...
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Motor driver using only a 2N2222 transistor?

Is it possible to build a motor driver using only a 2N2222 transistor? If yes, then how?
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L298 Motor Driver spinning motor only one way :/

i just made a motor driver circuit on a veroboard to use with my arduino but the problem is l298 spinning motor only one way. here is the code it was supposed to spin motor forth and backwards every 2 ...
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How does the Linistepper, open source linear Stepper Motor Drive work?

I have been trying to get the Linistepper to work, however I can't seem the understand the working of the circuit. The circuit is here. The issues that I'm unclear about are: What are the ...
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Is it possible to drive a stepper motor greater than 1000 rpm?

How could I achieve this? What are the stepper motor facts and principless that I have to keep in mind to design a circuit to achive this goal? Are there any readymade/open source alternatives ...
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BLDC and three phase inverter

I want to run/control a BLDC motor from a DVD/CD-rom player and found a schematic how to do this, the so called three phase inverter (see right schematic on this page: ...