DIY swing gate motor 12v arduino uno LN298N

Hi All

I've registered with Xsim to learn the art of Sim motion, as Im a fabricator , mechanical, electronics and software / coding engineer as these are my trade work and talent.

My current project and goal to the sim world is to produce a class brand product in my country. my sim racing career has driven me more to create my concept of a sim system that affordable and to involve more participates to the sim world.

looking forward to learning from all great minds and talented work.

Lets dive down the rabbit hole.

This was my first design I made, this will be a static rig that will be upgraded to the 2dof gate motor system. The seat base will be interchangeable with regards building another base with the motors integrated under the seat.

Fully setup, with a pc system spec i5 4560k 16gig ram with R9 390x

The feel of positioning feels perfect just need to relocate my shifter and make a cup holder.

Arduino and motor driver testing, before starting that gave motor .manage to pick up this e36 cluster for next to nothing. Will get a basic understanding of arduino before motor setup

The gate motors tear down to the motor heads and bracket.

Finally managed to get the bmw cluster and arduino board to sync with pcars2

Recently setup the arduino with monster motor driver, with the two motors.

I couldn't get any voltage higher than 2.6-3.3v on this unit.

Then I went back to the drawing board, to find another motor driver unit instead of this monster motor unit. Thinking it can carry 30A operation

Some mods done to the gate motor brackets, by welding supports for the pots. Door hedge plates welded on to a nut.

Working with what I have laying around at home.

Link to the Bmw E36 cluster that linked to arduino and synced with project cars 2 using simhub

I recently pop the caps on the monster motor driver, me a idiot wired the power wrong causing the caps to pop.

I went to purchase AZL Dual motor shield 8a 22v, got its setup and worked right away. The problem Im having is the one motor changes direction, but the obtain the motor doesn't it's just turns in one direction

In Smc utili motor 1 changes direction, motor 2 run one direction. clueless to what could be the problem

HI everyone

Here is the link of the setup



I've managed to get the SMC3utils software to run the motors, I see the one motor turns in different directions but the other motor continues in the same direction.

Could anyone tell me what could be wrong or is it right the way it's setup.

Kind regards to all.

Dual Channel H-Bridge Motor Shield

https://www.elecrow.com/wiki/index....ld_But_Not_Driver_IC_Solution_Such_As_L298.3F

I noticed the pin config of smc3 and XPID code differs.

SMC3

Arduino UNO Pinouts Used
//
// 9 - Motor 1 PWM
// 10 - Motor 2 PWM
// 11 - Motor 3 PWM
// 2 - Motor 1 H-Bridge ENA
// 3 - Motor 1 H-Bridge ENB
// 4 - Motor 2 H-Bridge ENA
// 5 - Motor 2 H-Bridge ENB
// 6 - Motor 3 H-Bridge ENA
// 7 - Motor 3 H-Bridge ENB
// A0 - Motor 1 Feedback
// A1 - Motor 2 Feedback
// A2 - Motor 3 Feedback
// A5 - Motion scaler pot input


XPID

Pin out of arduino for H-Bridge

Pin 10 - PWM1 - Speed for Motor 1.
Pin 9 - PWM2 - Speed for Motor 2.
Pin 2 - INA1 - motor 1 turn
Pin 3 - INB1 - motor 1 turn
Pin 4 - INB1 - motor 2 turn
Pin 5 - INB2 - motor 2 turn

Analog Pins

Pin A0 - input of feedback positioning from motor 1
Pin A1 - input of feedback positioning from motor 2

I havent tested the XPID code yet, as im sticking to Simtools but browsing thru the different codes i noticed pin6 on SMC3 is different on XPID being pin8.

Has Anyone a link to understand the grounding of the motor as i figure why the one motor surges during calibration.

Thank you in advance

@noorbeast Evens Grounded the motor i still get the same response the surge in the slave motor