This tiny board is an easy way to use Toshiba’s TB6612FNG dual motor driver, which can independently control two bidirectional DC motors. An operating range of 4.5 – 13.5 V and peak current output of 3 A per channel (1 A continuous) make this a great motor driver for low-power motors. Outputs can be paralleled for 6A peak, 2A continuous.
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The TB6612FNG is a great dual motor driver that is perfect for interfacing small DC motors such as our micro metal gearmotors to a microcontroller. The MOSFET-based H-bridges are much more efficient than the BJT-based H-bridges used in older drivers such as Sanyo’s LB1836M, which allows more current to be delivered to the motors and less to be drawn from the logic supply (the LB1836 still has the TB6612 beat for really low-voltage applications). Pololu's little breakout board gives you direct access to all of the features of the TB6612FNG and adds power supply capacitors and reverse battery protection on the motor supply (note: there is no reverse protection on the Vcc connection).
In a typical application, power connections are made on one side of the board and control connections are made on the other. All of the control inputs are internally pulled low. Each of the two motor channels has two direction control pins and a speed control pin that accepts a PWM input with a frequency of up to 100 kHz. The STBY pin must be driven high to take the driver out of standby mode.
The carrier board is tiny and the pin spacing allows it to fit into a standard breadboard.
For a more advanced motor controller based on this driver, please consider the qik 2s9v1 dual serial motor controller. For a robot controller based on this driver, please consider the Baby Orangutan and Orangutan SV-328 robot controllers and 3pi robot, which connect the TB6612 to a user-programmable ATmega328 AVR microcontroller.
The TB6612 motor driver used on the carrier board has a peak current rating of 3 A per channel. The peak ratings are for quick transients (e.g. when a motor is first turned on), and the continuous rating of 1 A is dependent on various conditions, such as the ambient temperature. The actual current you can deliver will depend on how well you can keep the motor driver cool. The carrier’s printed circuit board is designed to draw heat out of the motor driver chip, but performance can be improved by adding a heat sink.
| Size: | 0.60" x 0.80" |
| Motor driver: | TB6612FNG |
| Motor channels: | 2 |
| Minimum operating voltage: | 2.5 V |
| Maximum operating voltage: | 13.5 V |
| Continuous output current per channel: | 1 A |
| Peak output current per channel: | 3 A |
| Continuous paralleled output current: | 2 A |
| Maximum PWM frequency: | 100 kHz |
| Minimum logic voltage: | 2.7 V |
| Maximum logic voltage: | 5.5 V |
| Reverse voltage protection?: | Y |
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