Timeline for L298 dual H-Bridge RDS(on)
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| Mar 19, 2014 at 13:36 | comment | added | Andy aka | Its basically a repackaged L293 aka SN754410 and I don't know why people keep using them. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:49 | comment | added | m.Alin | @bhillam Your calculations are correct. The L298 is very inefficient in this regard. | |
| Mar 19, 2014 at 12:42 | comment | added | bhillam | I'm a bit confused by these numbers. At 2A the bridge will drop a combined ~3.7V (nominal) according to figure 1 (confirmed by the table of electrical characteristics), which gives 7.4W dissipated in the h-bridge alone, which seems unreasonably high. If this is correct it will dissipate more power than the motor it is driving. | |
| Mar 18, 2014 at 17:37 | history | answered | Andy aka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |