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Supported Motor Shields

Open npayne10 opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Is there a list of supported motor shields that can be used with this? For instance:

  1. 2A MOTOR SHIELD FOR ARDUINO from DFRobot
  2. L298 Dual Bridge DC Motor Driver Shield 2A
  3. Arduino Motor Shield rev3

npayne10 avatar Aug 11 '17 08:08 npayne10

The code only supports:

//  0 = ARDUINO MOTOR SHIELD          (MAX 18V/2A PER CHANNEL)
//  1 = POLOLU MC33926 MOTOR SHIELD   (MAX 28V/3A PER CHANNEL)

The official Arduino motor shield R3 is shown in the videos, so presumably is 0.

If you know of any boards that behave identically to those two, I'd suggest updating the documentation.

chrisridd avatar Jun 13 '18 21:06 chrisridd

FIY: I successfully controlled my railroad with a bare L293D (my layout is small) and a logical inverter chip. Had to disable current sensing though.

positron96 avatar Jan 13 '19 05:01 positron96

You can find much more motor shields on www.locoduino.org. I am testing a motor shield for nano from Deek Robot or Gravitec.using the 2 channels allow to get 4A.

DCC4N avatar Jul 16 '19 05:07 DCC4N

I saw the need to create a doc, I created a public doc that is editable by anyone here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aX81e8RtBGNq1Nm77MHVLQLgZCR7iYQC71rElTNzbmw/edit#gid=0

A ticket is open, so everyone can see the list. Unlikely anything will ever get merged.

Nightstalker350119 avatar Feb 08 '20 00:02 Nightstalker350119