Introduction
DC brushed motor is the most commonly used and widely available motor in the market. Getting the motor to rotate is fairly easy, just connect the two terminals to power source and it will start spinning, that's the beauty of DC brushed motor.
Yet, if you want to control the speed, direction, activation and automate all these functions, check out this tutorial: 5 easiest ways to control a DC motor. And using motor driver is one of the ways. MDD10A is one of Cytron's motor driver series which offers easy-to-use features and it can drive two independent motors.MDD10A is the dual-channel version of MD10C which is designed to drive 2 brushed DC motors with high current up to 10A continuously.
Like MD10C, MDD10A also supports locked-antiphase and sign-magnitude PWM signals. It uses full solid-state components that offer faster response time and eliminate the wear and tear of the mechanical relay. It can support Vmotor from 5V to 30VDC. With the presoldered terminals, and on-board manual/test buttons, you can get started even without any microcontroller.
Features
- Bi-directional control for two brushed DC motors.
- Support motor voltage ranges from 5V to 30VDC (Rev2.0).
- No Reverse Polarity Protection at Vmotor, please double-check the polarity before power-up.
- Maximum current up to 10A continuous and 30A peak (10 seconds) for each channel.
- Support 3.3V and 5V logic level input (for PWM and DIR), compatible with Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
- Solid-state components provide faster response time and eliminate the wear and tear of mechanical relay.
- Full NMOS H-Bridge for better efficiency and no heat sink is required.
- Regenerative Braking.
- Speed control PWM frequency up to 20KHz (output frequency is same and input frequency).
- Support both Locked-Antiphase and Sign-Magnitude PWM operation. ** Note this is not "RC PWM"
- 2 activation buttons for manual activation or fast test on each channel.
- Dimension: 84.5mm x 62mm
Applications
- DC motor driver
- 4WD high-power mobile robot platform
- Combat robots
- Pumps
- Electric fans
- Conveyors
Download
- User's manual
- Arduino Library and Example (Github)
- Fritzing
- Fritzing Tutorial
- MDD10A Rev2.0 CAD file
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Product Manufacture Page
Tutorials
- Controlling MD10C with Arduino, shows the connections to Arduino UNO.
- Using MDD10A with Arduino
- Using MDD10A with CIKU
- Smartphone Controlled Wheel Robot