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Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

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Hi. I'm currently trying to build a circuit in order to control a small pump motor from an ardupilot mega 2.5 microcontroller. The pump is rated at 12 v and 3.6 w but I only need to give it about 9 v for operation. I'm using a basic supply of 9 v battery or 2 in series to give the power necessary. I've designed a basic bjt circuit that outputs the correct voltage I need in simulation and theory, but when I connect it to the microcontroller output pin, the ardu cannot sync enough voltage/current to give me the output I need to turn on the pump. I've tried buffering the input with an op amp and several different configurations on my bjt circuit. Can anyone please help me out with this?
This is a rough schematic of the circuit I'm currently using:
Thank you for any help.

RE: Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

You should google "open collector circuit".

Keith Cress
kcress - http://www.flaminsystems.com

RE: Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

Try a power FET. If speeds are kept reasonable they need very little drive. Just be sure to choose one that will turn on with 5V.

RE: Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

wow.. the "Engineers" here are feeling generous today.. Normally a post like this immediately gets the
"Is this for school? No student posting allowed" response.

Heck just a 1k resistor and tip102 transistor will accomplish this with ease.

RE: Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

Naw......Sometimes it's juat hard to tell the students from the professionals.

RE: Help with pump motor control circuit from ArduPilot Mega 2.5

Not in this case.

Gunnar Englund
www.gke.org
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