The L293D is a dedicated module to fit in Arduino UNO R3 Board, and Arduino MEGA, It is actually a motor driver shield that has full featured Arduino Shield can be used to drive 2 to 6 DC motor and 4 wire Stepper motor and it has 2 set of pins to drive a SERVO. L203D is a monolithic integrated that has a feature to adopt high voltage, high current at four channel motor driver designed to accept load such as relays solenoids, DC Motors and Stepper Motors and switching power transistor. To simplify to use as two bridges on each pair of channels and equipped with an enable input. A separate supply input is provided for the logic, allowing operation at a lower voltage and internal clamp diodes are included.

The device is suitable for use in switching applications at frequencies up to 5kHz. The L293D is assembled in a 16 lead plastic package which has 4 center pins connected together and used for heat sinking. The L293DD is assembled in a 20 lead surface mount which has 8 center pins connected together and used for heat shrinking. L294D Shield Feature:. Control up to 4 DC motors.

Control 2 Servos. Logic Control Voltage VSS: 4.5 5.5 V. Motor Supply Voltage VSS: 15v. Drive operating current IO: 1.2A.

8 Stage Serial Shift Registers Wiring a DC Motor Motor requires more energy specially cheap motors since chip motors less efficient. The important thing you need is find out what voltage require your going to use. Some small motors are only intended to run at 1.5 volts but it is just a common to have 6 12v motors. The motor controller on L294D shield is design to run at 4.5v to 25v. Most 1.5 3 volts motor will not works on this shield. Another thing you need is to figure it out how much current the motor will support? The L293D chip support up to 600 mA per motor, with 1.2A peak current.

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Note ones you head towards 1A you’ll probably want to put a heat sink on the chip, otherwise it will get thermal failure or burning out the chip. On using the SN754410 motor driver chip because it has pin compatible, has an output diodes and can provide 1A per motor, 2A peak, you can download the datasheet below. If you want more power you need to add a set of L293D driver and solder them right on top of the board it has now a double current capability. You can cannot run motor of a a 9v battery it drain very fast.

Use NiMH or Lead ACID or LiPo Batteries it can provide 99% performance of the Motor. Note: Do not connect the motor to 5v line on the board. There are two places you can get your motor high voltage supply.

Wiring and Installation the DC Motor to the l293D Shield The DC motor are used for all sort of robotics projects. The motor shield can drive up to 4 or 6 DC motors bi directional, it means that they can be driven forward and backward. The speed can also be varied at 0.5% increments using PWM(Pulse with Modulation) this means that speed can be controlled. Note: The H-Bridge Chip is not supported for driving load over 0.6A over 1.2A so this it means that this chip is for small motors. Check the datasheet below to learn more. To connect simply place the 2 wires to the terminal with screw and then connect them to either M1, M2, M3, or M4 follow the example diagram above. Working on IDE Before you can use the motor shield, you need to download the Arduino IDE Motor Library this will create a bridge between the shield and the Arduino.

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Place the DCMotor folder into arduino sketch folder/libraries. For windows My Documents Libraries My Documents Arduino libraries ArduinoParty ArduinoParty.cpp My Documents Arduino libraries ArduinoParty ArduinoParty.h My Documents Arduino libraries ArduinoParty examples For MAC Documents / Arduino / Libraries. Documents/Arduino/libraries/ArduinoParty/ArduinoParty.cpp Documents/Arduino/libraries/ArduinoParty/ArduinoParty.h Documents/Arduino/libraries/ArduinoParty/examples For Linux Documents/Arduino/libraries/ArduinoParty/ArduinoParty.cpp Documents/Arduino/libraries/ArduinoParty/ArduinoParty.h Documents/Arduino/libraries/ArduinoParty/examples There be more files than just.cpp and.h files just make sure that they are all there. Note: The library wont work if you put.cpp and.h files directly into the libraries folder or if they are nested in an extra folder.

Restart the Arduino IDE. Make sure that new libraries appers in the Sketch Import Library Menu Item. Sample Sketch.

When ever you want to drive heavy loads with a small TTL signal you use a transistor, bjt or a mosfet. In case the circuit becomes complex and you need to drive load with two, three or four TTL signals you use a combination of transistors or mosfet to provide high power output to load. For example motors dc or stepper or servo require high power and 2, 3 control signals for rotation direction change and speed control. This transistor or mosfet combination is know as H-bridge circuit. Making a H-bridge circuit on bread board or pcb(printed circuit board) requires many wires to be connected and it seems like a mess also the circuit takes too much space. Luckily this issue can be over come by using l293d ic. L293d ic is same like an h bridge circuit with two channels.

It has two half h bridge circuits residing in it. You can use it to drive uni polar, bi polar stepper motors, dc motors or even servo motors. The individual two channels can be use stand alone to drive solenoids/relays. A single channel can be used to drive a dc motor in forward(clock wise) or back word(anti clock wise) direction. Hence we can drive two dc motors with l293d. It can also be used to output a pwm (pulse width modulation) signal.

The ic came in two different versions L293 and L293D. Both have same number of operational pins with same pin names. But differ in voltage and current supply and control specifications. L293 can output more current. But the disadvantage is it has greater number of pins than L293D. When input 1 is opened and input 2 is closed transistor Q4 and Q1 are operational. Current start flowing through this path and the motor starts moving in the anti clock wise direction.

Enable is still at high potential and vs is supplied battery required voltage. If both the input 1 and input 2 are opened or closed to current path will be established and motor will not rotate.

If any input is closed and enable is not at high potential than still the circuit will not work. Enable is a master pin and controls the whole circuit.

Above the equivalent of input circuit and output circuit is shown. Input side is simple just a transistor with a protection diode. At output side we have a darlington circuit with high current gain and protection diodes. The rotation of motors connected at the output of l293d and the input output truth table is shown below.

Single direction driven motor and dual direction control motors circuit and truth table is given below. Single direction driven motor uses only one channel. Where as direction control motor occupies two channels.