Hello, this is my first time working with arduino, l298, motors, and batteries. I am wondering how I can connect cable from the battery to the arduino and l298 without overpowering them, overheating, or blowing them up, are there any cables that can directly do this, I would appreciate if anyone could tell me which cables I should use to flow the power from the battery to both the arduino and l298, thank you. It would be preferrable if the power could flow directly, and there is less wires, and no fusing, thank you
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sorry, i am not sure what you mean by that, could you please link the article? if anyone else sees this please do help as well
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Hello, this is my first time working with arduino, l298, motors, and batteries. I am wondering how I can connect cable from the battery to the arduino and l298 without overpowering them, overheating, or blowing them up, are there any cables that can directly do this, I would appreciate if anyone could tell me which cables I should use to flow the power from the battery to both the arduino and l298, thank you. It would be preferrable if the power could flow directly, and there is less wires, and no fusing, thank you
The wire gauge will depend on how far away the motor is from the battery.
So what is the distance between them?
What battery set do You plan for?
Start with the battery. What provision does the battery have to connect cables to it? Does it have screw connectors?
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Read the specification, it will not support a 7A motor.
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The ancient L298 won't work well, or at all. It is intended only for very small, low current motors.
You will need a motor driver capable of handling the start/stall current for your motor, which is typically 5 to 10X the free running current. Pololu has the best selection of modern motor drivers.
For help, post a link to the motor product page.
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Thank you for posting the link, I will read the article now
The distance is probably no more than a foot
This is a graph of the wiring, what i am looking for in specific is the red and black wires coming out of the battery, all the other wires I have done research and sorted out. But i am just wondering does anyone know what type of wires could be used like the red and black wires coming out of the battery are used here? much thanks, arduino is the arduino uno rev3, and the l298 is the red board, the motor is dc motor not too powerful, the code is already figured out
Thanks for the article, it was helpful to understand the rules
That shows a stepping motor, not a brushed DC motor. The L298 won't work for most stepping motors, either. You need a current limiting stepper driver.
If you can't take the trouble to post a link to the product page or data sheet for the motor you actually have, you probably won't get any useful advice from this forum.
Then I would use AWG18
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