I recently purchased a motor shield on Amazon. Didn't read the direction fully and the deivce arrived in parts. had to sodler the whole thing together. I would like to test it somehow before attaching to my Arduion and blowing somehtinh up.
Model Motor control shield KIT for Arduino
Is There a way to provide power to the device to see if it runs amotor okay and nothing is shorted out?
Thansk In Avance
Shon
Sure.
Feed the board 5v for both the logic and the motor voltage, attach a small motor, and, pull one input high while you pull the other one low. Don’t forget to pull the ENABLE HIGH as well.
I do not know which kit is
I do not know which kit is exactly, but almost all uses external power to “feed” the motors. Very little risk to “blow up” something in the arduino, since the current between these two devices is very low. The high current(to power the motors) will be only in the shield.
Good Luck!
PS: for tests I have a low cost arduino clone. It’s helpfull when you afraid to blow up things 
