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Adafruit DRV8871 Brushed DC Motor Driver Breakout Created by lady ada https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-drv8871-brushed-dc-motor-driver-breakout Last updated on 2022-07-18 02:23:37 PM EDT ©Adafruit Industries Page 1 of 16 Table of Contents Overview 3 Pinouts 6 • Motor power pins • Motor Input Pins • Motor Output Assembly 8 • Prepare the header strip and Add the breakout board: • Solder! Usage 12 Download 14 • Datasheets & Files • Schematic • Fabrication Print ©Adafruit Industries Page 2 of 16 Overview Crank up your robotics with powerful Adafruit DRV8871 motor driver breakout board. This motor driver has a lot of great specs that make it useful for a wide variety of mechatronics. In particular, the simple resistor-set current limiting and auto-magic PWM support make it super easy to use with almost any brushed DC motor. ©Adafruit Industries Page 3 of 16 Check out the specs for the DRV8871: • 6.5V to 45V motor power voltage • Up to 5.5V logic level on IN pins • 565mΩ Typical RDS(on) (high + low) • 3.6A peak current • PWM control • Current limiting/regulation without an inline sense resistor • Undervoltage lockout • Overcurrent protection • Thermal shutdown Using it is super simple. Connect your motor to the OUT terminal block. Power the board with 6.5-45VDC power on VMotor and provide the H-bridge input control on IN 1 and IN2. You can even PWM the inputs and the driver chip will do the right thing. ©Adafruit Industries Page 4 of 16 You can set the current limiting with an external resistor Rlim. We solder in a 30K resistor by default for a ~2A current limit, however you can remove this resistor and/or solder a resistor over it to change the resistance and change the limit. Each order comes with one fully assembled and tested motor driver breakout, two 2pin terminal blocks and a small strip of header. Some light soldering is required to attach the header and terminal blocks but its a simple task that can be done with basic soldering equipment. ©Adafruit Industries Page 5 of 16 Pinouts Motor power pins These two sets of pads are connected internally so you can use breadboard or terminal blocks to provide motor power. Use 6.5V-45VDC to power the motor and the chip. This isn't the same as the logic level of the chip, which is up to 5.5 VDC. You do not have to provide a logic level power supply to the chip, how nice is that? ©Adafruit Industries Page 6 of 16 Motor Input Pins These are the inputs to the motor control. IN2 goes to OUT2, IN1 goes to OUT1. Use up to 5.5V DC logic on these pins. You can PWM the inputs up to 200KHz, but lower frequencies will be more efficient. Motor Output ©Adafruit Industries Page 7 of 16 Pretty simple - this is where your motor goes! Works with any DC brushed motor. Use thick wires to avoid dropping voltage across the wire resistance Assembly Prepare the header strip and Add the breakout board:   Cut the strip to length if necessary. It will be easier to solder if you insert it into a breadboard - long pins down   Place the breakout board over the pins so that the short pins poke through the breakout pads ©Adafruit Industries Page 8 of 16 Solder!   Be sure to solder all pins for reliable electrical contact. (For tips on soldering, be sure to check out our Guide to Excellent Soldering (https:// adafru.it/aTk)). ©Adafruit Industries Page 9 of 16 Next we will solder in the two 3.5mm terminal blocks used to connect power & the motor to the breakout board.    Make sure the open parts of the terminals face outwards so you can easily connect wires   To make it easier to keep these in place, you can use some tape to hold down the two header pieces. Tacky clay also works, whatever you've got handy!   ©Adafruit Industries Page 10 of 16 Solder in both pins of each terminal block. You can remove the tape when done. ©Adafruit Industries Page 11 of 16 OK You're done! Now you can get your motors spinnin' !  Usage Using the motor driver is really easy. Wire up the two input pins to your microcontroller's PWM outputs. We'll be using an Arduino but any microcontroller or microcomputer can be used. If you don't have PWM outputs you can also just use straight logic high and low but you wont get speed control // Basic sketch for trying out the Adafruit DRV8871 Breakout #define MOTOR_IN1 9 #define MOTOR_IN2 10 void setup() { Serial.begin(9600); Serial.println("DRV8871 test"); pinMode(MOTOR_IN1, OUTPUT); pinMode(MOTOR_IN2, OUTPUT); ©Adafruit Industries Page 12 of 16 } void loop() { // ramp up forward digitalWrite(MOTOR_IN1, LOW); for (int i=0; i<255; i++) { analogWrite(MOTOR_IN2, i); delay(10); } // forward full speed for one second delay(1000); // ramp down forward for (int i=255; i>=0; i--) { analogWrite(MOTOR_IN2, i); delay(10); } // ramp up backward digitalWrite(MOTOR_IN2, LOW); for (int i=0; i<255; i++) { analogWrite(MOTOR_IN1, i); delay(10); } // backward full speed for one second delay(1000); // ramp down backward for (int i=255; i>=0; i--) { analogWrite(MOTOR_IN1, i); delay(10); } } ©Adafruit Industries Page 13 of 16 Download Datasheets & Files • DRV8871 Datasheet (https://adafru.it/oES) • EagleCAD PCB Files on GitHub (https://adafru.it/oET) • Fritzing object in our library (https://adafru.it/aP3) ©Adafruit Industries Page 14 of 16 Schematic Fabrication Print Dimensions in Inches ©Adafruit Industries Page 15 of 16 ©Adafruit Industries Page 16 of 16