Hello, I’m trying to make a robot, I have to decide if tracked or with 4-wheel drive.
can anyone recommend a card to manage 2 or 4 motors like the photo?
Thanks.
would the following controller be fine in case of 4 motors per wheel?
It allows me to control everything with my spektrum dx6e remote control.
Hello @baronrojosur and welcome to the RobotShop community,
I think this guide should help you out with your choice:
And this one for choosing the motor controller:
Looks like your motor has a nominal power of 45W and a nominal current of 4.5A, so yes you could use the motor driver you linked without a problem. Although I’m not sure what you meant by 4 motors per wheel, do you mean per channel?
You could even use a motor driver with a lower current rating, depending on how many motors you are planning on controlling with one driver. If you want to control 4 motors (two per channel) you would need at least 9A per channel, so you could even find one in the <10A DC Controllers section, or since you mentioned RC, the R/C DC Controllers section.
If you want to control two motors you could use this one:
If you want to control four motors with one driver:
I hope that helps!
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Hello. I meant one motor per wheel. since I already have the engines. and I also have radio rc. I wanted to exploit them.
If you want to use 4 motors (1 per wheel) and differential drive you will need a dual-channel controller (so you won’t be able to use the one you linked because it only has one channel), but you could use this one:
And wire the motors in parallel (2 on each channel).
If you want to drive each motor independently (for omni or mecanum wheels) then you would need 4 separate channels (so you will most likely need two motor drivers). However, if you are using regular wheels you can drive it with only two channels.
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