Latching 5V Circuit For Motor Control

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Dinel

Joined Mar 2, 2016
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I am unsure how to latch a motor into the forward position using a N/O push button, and unlatch while also latching into reverse using the temporary output of an object sensor (I'm using OPB715-716-717-718). I would then like to unlatch the motor from reverse and have it be off using another object sensor (of the same kind). I attached a picture of the H-Bridge design I used to make my circuit, if that helps with anything.
 

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ScottWang

Joined Aug 23, 2012
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T1, T4 in parallel a 3.3K~4.7K resistor with Vbe2, Vbe4 to avoid when T1 or T4 tun off and it's Vb1 and Vb4 become a floating status.
 

Alec_t

Joined Sep 17, 2013
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Depending on the motor type and load, going instantly from forward to reverse could damage the motor and/or load. The forward unlatching operation ideally should initiate a braking period before reverse is applied.
 

AnalogKid

Joined Aug 1, 2013
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Which of the four sensor models are you using?
For 5V control signal inputs, both R5 and R6 should be 1K. Scale R2 and R4 for your desired T1 and T4 base currents at whatever the motor power rail is.

Is this correct:

Motor is at rest
Push button and release
Motor moves forward
Motor triggers object sensor #1
Signal from object sensor #1 changes motor to reverse
Motor runs reverse
Motor triggers object sensor #2
Motor is at rest

Is that correct?

In other words, press a button, the motor runs out to a limit, reverses, runs back to the starting point, and stops.

Yes / No ?

If yes, then functionally you need two flipflops, one for on/off and one for forward/reverse. Not difficult, looks like two CMOS chips and your motor driver circuit. Are you familiar with CMOS parts like a CD4013 and CD4093? The circuit can be done with two 4093's. However, replacing one 4093 with a 4013 increases the circuit's immunity to false trigger signals out of the sensors.

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AnalogKid

Joined Aug 1, 2013
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This is an equal-component version, with one part type for both the flipflops and the gating. For this version, the object detectors should have totem-pole outputs that go *low* when an object is detected.

Note that neither schematic has power decoupling, power-on reset, or input transient protection, things that can vary with the installation.

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MotorReverseSensor-3-c.gif
 

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Colin55

Joined Aug 27, 2015
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"Same place it is in all of the TS posts. Resistor-capacitor-diode deadband timers can be inserted between the output gate pairs."

By the time you muck about with all this hardware, you would be better off with a microcontroller.
 

AnalogKid

Joined Aug 1, 2013
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By the time you muck about with all this hardware, you would be better off with a microcontroller.
Every time you (and several others around here) say something like that, I wonder what you are talking about. I could wire up this circuit on perf board in under two hours. You probably are about that speed, but even if you're not we're talking 1/2 day. While post #1 has clear evidence that the TS can design and wire up discrete circuits, there is zero information to support the assumption that he can program anything, let alone a microcontroller. It is much safer to assume it would take him 2 days just to read up on the popular parts and select one for the project. Then he has to learn C++, then buy a development kit or device programmer, then figure out the I/O pin control registers (always a thrill ride), and then write and debug the code. And then, ***wire up the circuit on a perf board anyway***. My guess, even with PIC Basic (and assuming he knows BASIC) it would take a few weeks. Are you seriously suggesting that wiring up two NAND gate packages is less total effort?

I have nothing against PICs (or whatever). I have them in personal projects around the house and military systems sprinkled around the globe. But they (like the 555) are a specialized tool for a subset of problems. Sure a PIC can do this job, but that doesn't make it the right tool for this job.

Google Maslow and hammer.

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Dinel

Joined Mar 2, 2016
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Which of the four sensor models are you using?
For 5V control signal inputs, both R5 and R6 should be 1K. Scale R2 and R4 for your desired T1 and T4 base currents at whatever the motor power rail is.

Is this correct:

Motor is at rest
Push button and release
Motor moves forward
Motor triggers object sensor #1
Signal from object sensor #1 changes motor to reverse
Motor runs reverse
Motor triggers object sensor #2
Motor is at rest

Is that correct?

In other words, press a button, the motor runs out to a limit, reverses, runs back to the starting point, and stops.

Yes / No ?

If yes, then functionally you need two flipflops, one for on/off and one for forward/reverse. Not difficult, looks like two CMOS chips and your motor driver circuit. Are you familiar with CMOS parts like a CD4013 and CD4093? The circuit can be done with two 4093's. However, replacing one 4093 with a 4013 increases the circuit's immunity to false trigger signals out of the sensors.

ak
I am not familiar with those parts, but I'll look into it, thanks for your help
 

MaxHeadRoom

Joined Jul 18, 2013
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Still don't know the details of the motor maybe it may be able to instant reverse without harm, depending on the load, if so probably could be done with three relays!
Microcontroller going even more over the top!
Max.
 
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