Arduino not giving signals to LN298 or mistaken wiring

[pancake95]

Hello all, I am using arduino nano for my project and I try running motors with ln298. The problem is that the motors are not starting to run and I see the onboard led on the arduino flashing every second and clicking noise from the arduino.
The wiring is this: digital pins 2,3,4,5 are used for controling left forward, backward; right forward backward; vin is supplied with 9v and on the same breadboard rail I use ln vin too; gnd is from battery, arduino gnd and ln298 gnd are on the same breadboard rail as the battery supplied gnd.
I am providing a picture of the wiring:

And my code: //#include <SoftwareSerial.h>//pins for left motorint outputPinSix = 2;//sig - Pastebin.com

[UKHeliBob]

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[killzone_kid]

Where is your +12V source?

[groundFungus]

Is that a 9V smoke alarm battery that I see there? Those batteries cannot supply enough current for a motor. Better would be a 6 AA (1.5V) cell pack if you need 9V.

Besides the fact that the ancient and very inefficient L298 is a really crappy motor driver by today's standards. The L298 drops 2 to over 4 Volts of the motor supply as waste heat. Not so good for a battery powered device.

Pololu has a good line of motor drivers.

[pancake95]

Thank you for the advice I will try to provide a schematic.

[pancake95]

I am using 9v battery, no 12v source.

[pancake95]

Hello, thank you for the information! I have a nest for 4 1.5V AA batteries and I tested the configuration at first with it and it was behaving well. I have also LIPO batteries(3.7V) and I will connect two of them in series and use the 7.4V from them. As for the driver I do have one pololu driver that I have not used by now not even once. I might try using that. thank you again!

[killzone_kid]

the motor board has 12v connector, i assume for motor power, no?

[pancake95]

The input voltage for the motor driver can be from 5-35 Volts. So driving it in 9 Volts is okay, but as the other person mentioned the battery is not supplying the needed current. So I changed the battery with 2 Li Po batteries each 3.7 Volts and suming them both I get 7.4 Volts, which is plenty. So everything is okay.