DC MOTOR

A DC motor is electromechanical device that converts electrical energy into

mechanical energy that can be used to do many useful works. DC motors comes in
various ratings like 6V and 12V. It has two wires or pins.. When connected with
power supply the shaft rotates. We can reverse the direction of rotation by
reversing the polarity of input.

Here we uses 60RPM DC Motor with Gearbox. Different RPM available with
standard size. It is very easy to use. For line tracking robotic application it is very
excellent one.

Features
•60RPM,12V,DC motors with Gearbox
• 12V DC Supply
• 6mm shaft diameter with threaded hole & screw 
• 125gm weight
• Same size motor available in various RPM
• 12kgcm torque
• No-load current = 60 mA(Max), Load current = 250 mA(Max)
CONTROLLING DC MOTORS
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As the MCUs PORT are not powerful enough to drive DC motors directly so we
need some kind of drivers. A very easy and safe is to use popular L293D chips. It
is a 16 PIN chip. The pin configuration is as follows.

L293D Dual H-Bridge Motor Driver

L293D is a dual H-Bridge motor driver, So with one IC we can interface two DC

motors which can be controlled in both clockwise and counter clockwise direction
and if you have motor with fix direction of motion the you can make use of all the
four I/Os to connect up to four DC motors. L293D has output current of 600mA
and peak output current of 1.2A per channel. Moreover for protection of circuit
from back EMF ouput diodes are included within the IC. The output supply
(VCC2) has a wide range from 4.5V to 36V, which has made L293D a best
choice forDCmotor driver.
A simple schematic for interfacing a DC motor using L293D is shown below.
We just need to set appropriate levels at two PINs of the microcontroller to control
the motor. Since this chip controls two DC motors there are two more output pins
(output3 and output4) and two more input pins(input3 and input4).
The INPUT3 and INPUT4 controls second motor in the same way as listed above
for input A and B. There are also two ENABLE pins they must be high(+5v) for
operation, if they are pulled low(GND) motors will stop.