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2024-07-02 7:03 pm
My name is Tendeka and I work as a Computer Science teacher and I have started a Coding and robotics club at my school. I need help in the best way to connect the TB6612 fng motor driver to a four-wheel car robot. Any help?
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2024-07-02 9:15 pm
Hi Tendeka, welcome to the forum.
I have used the TB6612FNG H-bridge in many of my videos; an example of driving a 4-wheel car is the Mecanum Wheel robot car I built:
The motor wiring would be identical for a non-Mecanum wheel design; you would only have to change the code slightly for it being a 4-wheel device. This design drives each wheel independently.
You could also use a single TB6612FNG and drive two motors with each channel, but the motors would have to be small. Personally, I like driving them independently.
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Bill
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2024-07-02 9:40 pm
@tmatatu Welcome to the forum. You have received help from the 'man' himself, nobody can do better.
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2024-07-03 2:10 pm
Thank you Bill for the video using Mecanum wheels and how you can interface using two BT6612 FNG drivers. There are people who have suggested connecting to a single BT6612 FNG using pairs of motors in parallel. Would you recommend this?
2024-07-03 9:24 pm
As I said in my comment, I personally wouldn't do that, but it can be done. You need to be sure that the stall current of both motors combined is less than the peak current of the TB6612FNG.
By driving them independently, you can control each motor and compensate for speed differences, which are common with cheap DC motors. And you can use bigger motors, as you are not sharing the current capabilities of the H-Bridge. But of course, it takes two modules and twice as much wiring to the microcontroller.
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Bill
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2024-07-04 7:46 am
Point taken. Much appreciated responses.