Wheelchair Motor Pair

[RounnoParticipant]

Hello there,

Some questions about those wheelchair motors :
How can I plug the motors to the sabertooth dual controller ?
Do those motors need speed regulation ? and if so is there any code available on the sabertooth dual controller that provides speed closed loop control ?
And also what kind of hub do I need to connect those motors to wheels like 10 inch pneumatics ?

Thank you very much

• This topic was modified 1 year, 6 months ago by  Rounno.

[SuperDroidKeymaster]

Hi. The wheel chair motors require 24VDC for full speed/power. You can hook a source direct to them and they will just go full speed. Its a pretty crude way of running them. The better way of doing it is hooking up a sabertooth 2×60. You will then get direction control and speed control of each motor. The Sabertooth 2×60 can be controlled by analog input (like a potentiometer 0-5V) or serial input at TTL level, or RC input (see our RC support page). See our motor controller support page for more help. Let us know if you have any more questions.

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