Hello my RC car has a 7.2 Volt 2200 mAh battery. I used an dual L298N H-bridge to control it but nothing happened.Only was working on 255 PWM and very very slow.
I connect directly motor to battery and with multimeter saw that on air motor need 1.8 A
When i block intantly the motor, it needed 4.8 A.
So the L298 gives max 2 A and i cant use it.
Any suggestion to make an H-bridge that can work with 5-6A fine ; H-bridge with power Mosfet is the only solution;
o Replace the 10k resistors on the top FETs with 680 ohm resistors
o lose the 100 ohm resistors
o change the 22k base resistors to 4k7
o run it at 10V to 15V (so the p-channel MOSFETs have the correct gate drive)
o replace the IRF540's with logic-level n-channel MOSFETs
o add 150 ohm resistors inline with the n-channel MOSFET gates.
o change the p-chan MOSFETs to one's with less on-resistance, 0.03 ohms or less.
Then that circuit will work and be able to PWM at reasonable speeds.
You'll need to drive it with some dead-time between high-side and low-side
conducting, perhaps only a few us.
You'll then need logic-level MOSFETs top and bottom - but make sure the gate-source
max voltage for the p-channel FETs is well above 7.2V (well, below -7.2V to be precise).
For instance look at the suggested circuit at the bottom of page 1 in this datasheet:
That's a half-H-bridge, so double it up to make an H-bridge. There are many other
similar high-side-low-side MOSFET driver chips to choose from. You do need 10 or
12V for them (a small boost conveter from 7.2V would provide that). The MOSFETs
are non-logic-level n-channel, giving a wide choice. Such H-bridges can run at almost
any voltage from <1V to 600V (depending on devices), since the MOSFET supply
is separate from the driver's 12V.
Legolas69:
I know ,but a want to make that bridge and no buy it
The below might be good reading id you are considering a DIY h-bridge. Note that MOSFETS need to be logic level to be directly driven from the arduino. Ebay has inexpensive h-bridge motor drivers for the arduino.
Because i want to learn and dont take something that is ready
I made an H-bridge with 12 Volt suply and worked perfect, the problem is that i must make one for 7.2 Volt cause i change the battery i have now (its from the RC car )
Both of the below h-bridges have specs that say the lower limit voltage is around 6v. I doubt you will be successful in making an h-bridge any cheaper.
Last time a made that bridge and was working perfect on 12 V. Its H-bridge for 8051 microcontroler but was working for my Mega too. The 2 LED for up Mosfets are used to driver them to "cut" (5+2+2 V)
Now i need replace those led with NPN transisor. Any idea ;