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Super Stepper Dual DC Brush Motor Controller (SS-DualDC):
This is one of the coolest dual DC motor controllers you will find. And the coolest thing about it is that you can add this little aid to your robotic application already running steppers, RC servo
motors, input sensors and much more, along with the powerful Super Stepper communication protocol. The SS-PortaDC268 will deliver up to 650 mA current to any brush DC motor and control its direction.
The PortaDC268 works by receiving commands based on the Super Stepper communication protocol. These commands can be
shared with up to 32 controllers per serial command link. So up to 64 DC brush motors could be controlled with a single PC COMM port.
Thanks to two shaft encoder inputs, some cool functions can be obtained, such as moving until an amount of steps are reached, home
the motor and shaft encoder pulse count. Some of the instructions the user can expect to find are move motor A or B indefinitely,
move motor A or B a certain number of steps, move motor A or B for a limited amount of time, home the motor A or B, stop the
motor A or B, break the motor A or B, etc. There are also instructions to read and write 32 bytes of RAM and 128 bytes of
EEPROM. So in a sense the board can also work as a small memory module for robotic data collecting.
The SS-PortaDC2 contains connectors for power and communications which can be linked to other units in a piggy back configuration making it easy for small robots such as Sumo Wrestlers.
- Up to 650 mA Current Control Driver (per DC motor)
- Settings fully configurable both on RAM (for runtime) or EEPROM (for startup).
- Current control ensures motors are not subjected to hazardous spikes.
- Commands to move both motors clockwise or counterclockwise, move a number of shaft encoder ticks, home the motors, stop or brake the motors, and more are available.
- Up to 32 Super Stepper controllers can be linked to a single serial link.
- Use of easy serial interface (PC with RS-232 driver) or any microcontroller UART)
- Flash memory to configure system (takes care of initialization downloads at startup)
- RAM memory for user data storage.
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