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RL600

Hello everybody,

I have a basic stamp and I want to control a motor. I haven't the motor yet. I don't know which motor I must take yet (because of this I can't give some specifications of the motor). Maybe one of you has an idea. For which motor I can take. The motor is to experiment with, the motor hasn't a goal yet.I want to control a much larger motor than the basic stamp can control. The Volt and Amper

Mike Green

It all depends on what kind of motor and what you want to do with it. Do you just want to turn the motor on and off? If it's a DC motor, do you want to control the motor's direction? Do you want to control the motor's speed?

For DC motors, you probably want to use what's called an H-Bridge. There are other motors called R/C Servo motors which were originally developed for model airplanes. These have the motor controller built-in.

Both the RC Servo and an H-Bridge can be directly controlled by a Basic Stamp.

There's another motor called a stepper. These can also be controlled by a Basic Stamp by using something like a ULN2803 Darlington transistor array. There are examples in Parallax's StampWorks Manual.