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Wheelchair Motor wiring #2

Open jfulkerson68 opened 9 years ago

jfulkerson68 commented 9 years ago

The wheel chair motor requires 24Vdc to be applied to the white wires for the electronic break to release while the robot is moving. I have a link to blog that I believe will answer the questions we need to be successful using the motors. http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=16499.0 If this does not full answer our questions let me know what you need and I will continue my research.

robin731 commented 9 years ago

Hi all,

Mike and I played with this a little the other evening. It appears that the brake release draws around 500mA per motor, or 1 amp total for the two motors. We can either energize them whenever the robot is powered up and accept the constant minor battery drain, or have the motor-control Arduino energize them whenever it is about to drive the motors.

-- Robin

On Tuesday, April 28, 2015, 8:36:35 PM, you wrote:

The wheel chair motor requires 24Vdc to be applied to the white wires for the electronic break to release while the robot is moving. I have a link to blog that I believe will answer the questions we need to be successful using the motors. http://www.societyofrobots.com/robotforum/index.php?topic=16499.0 If this does not full answer our questions let me know what you need and I will continue my research. — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

benpayne commented 9 years ago

I'd just have the Arduino take care of it. It's one GPIO and a relay. Sounds simple enough.