Bullseye
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Resolved by EzAng!
I have two brushless motors and speed controls I would like to add to the EZ robot B v4 and I also purchased two 5 amp controllers as I was told I would need them. Do you have a tutorial for adding what I have described? I will be running two separate batteries one for each motor. I will also have a battery for the EZ-Bv4. Please let me know if you have any other questions. I read through ALL the documents online and watched most of the videos. I have it all set up and bought a wifi dongle (wish I knew that before I started). I just need to know what to add for the dual motors for the Synthaim software and how to add setup the wiring on the unit.
Thanks, Adam
Related Hardware EZ-B v4
Good luck my friend
I purchased https://synthiam.com/Shop/AccessoriesDetails.aspx?prevCat=9&productNumber=14 I assume this is the same thing? I am pretty new to this, so please don't assume I know anything : )
Did you get it to work?
I did watch the video, I am just confused where to male plug the speed control(s) into the board. Pic below...
Just got back, how are you doing?
I believe the picture that @Bullseye shared is an ESC (electronic speed control).
So it all depends on what motors @Bullseye has. If they are Brushless DC motors then an ESC would be better to use. It would only need an ARC servo skill to use it. One thing to note is that most ESCs can only spin a motor in one direction. An ESC can be modified to make a brushless motor spin both directions or control brushed DC motors but these are advanced features requiring modified firmware. Modifying firmware means that you need to open the ESC and use a programmer to upload new code to it, it's definitely an advanced method.
If they are DC gear motors, an H-bridge would be in order to control the motors. An L298 is a type of H-bridge (the H-bridge on the EZ-Robot website is an L298). An H-bridge can be hooked up to a Robot controller just as EzAng mentioned.
They are brushless motors, so what you are saying is that there is no way to do that? I am sorry for the newbie questions but I purchased two-speed controls & two brushless motors ($500 so far). Should I just get a RC radio and go that way? Or is there another solution?
Thanks in advance Bullseye
Yes you can control the brushless motors with ESC and ARC using the servo skills that ARC provides. The servo skills can provide the signals that the ESC needs.
What ESC do you have? What's the datasheet say, can it do bi-directional motion?