Hello LMRians,
I am trying to hook up the spider controller to a tb6612fng motor driver. I have made the connections as foll-ows:
Vcc of the motor driver - Vcc of the spider controller
Gnd - Gnd
Motor pins to Output pins on the motor driver
Digital pins to Input pins on the motor driver ( and also the STBY pin to the digital pin)
Vmot to positive batery terminal 7.2 V lion and GND to negative terminal
I haven't powered up the spider controller yet, and the wierd issue i get is that the spider controller turns on automatically,
It didn't happen for one moment, i removed the battery terminals, and re-connected to the motor driver, problem resumes again :(
Even the driver is getting hot, and i have checked the connections a hundred times. Also, supplied the logic voltage first, then only the motor voltage.
Have not uploaded a program either, so it's no issue of the motors drawing too much current, i guess.
What could be the issue guys? Already burnt the 4 channel controller :-( don't want to lose spidy so early ;-)
Thanks
Ashim