Ok,
Looks like for this application, (simple mobile robot vehicle), I can use the H-bridge I designed a while back, I am now using a 9volt battery for the logics unit, and 2 AA batteries for the H-bridge drive voltage, the motor I'm using is a small 5volt, hacked servo motor.
I have built and run extensive tests on this and I am satisfied that this will work for THIS application.
The reason for extrememly high resistanace is to not load the battery so much.
First here is the data I gathered during the test run.
Here is the original schematic
the motor is run off of 2 AA batteries, and the logic is run off of 9 volt battery.
here is the unit breadboarded for one motor only.
Here is the dynamic test applying a squarewave signal to the unit.
I had to use a resistive dummy load so as to check the switching ability of circuit.
100 hZ.
200 Hz.
and 400 Hz.
This unit will only be switching during sensor inputs (no need for fast switching), such as bumper switches and infra-red obststacle avoidance, most of the time the motor will be in continuous run mode.
After an hour the mosfets were still cool to the touch.
Thanks everyoe for the info on my last thread I appreciate the time you took to exoplain things.
Looks like for this application, (simple mobile robot vehicle), I can use the H-bridge I designed a while back, I am now using a 9volt battery for the logics unit, and 2 AA batteries for the H-bridge drive voltage, the motor I'm using is a small 5volt, hacked servo motor.
I have built and run extensive tests on this and I am satisfied that this will work for THIS application.
The reason for extrememly high resistanace is to not load the battery so much.
First here is the data I gathered during the test run.
Here is the original schematic
the motor is run off of 2 AA batteries, and the logic is run off of 9 volt battery.
here is the unit breadboarded for one motor only.
Here is the dynamic test applying a squarewave signal to the unit.
I had to use a resistive dummy load so as to check the switching ability of circuit.
100 hZ.
200 Hz.
and 400 Hz.
This unit will only be switching during sensor inputs (no need for fast switching), such as bumper switches and infra-red obststacle avoidance, most of the time the motor will be in continuous run mode.
After an hour the mosfets were still cool to the touch.
Thanks everyoe for the info on my last thread I appreciate the time you took to exoplain things.
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