Hi all recently I started a project where I'm making a autonomous car and I came across a traxxas car with a Brushless DC motor. I noticed that it had three wires and not two like a regular dc motor. I wanted to know if I could hook up my Arduino motor shield to the motor. Thanks for the help.
No. BLDCs need BLDC motor controllers (ie a suitable RC ESC in this case as its most likely
a sensorless motor. If its in an RC car it already connected to a suitable ESC. You drive ESCs
just like servos with the Servo library.
Alright so with the motor shield I'm trying to fix the current code to work with the servo input 2 could you tell me what the name is or where I could find this information thanks.
Servos take a single special PWM logic signal, you just need the Servo library and the ESC.