Pololu Qik 2s12v10 Dual Serial Motor Controller

The qik 2s12v10 adds a comprehensive yet easy-to-use, high-power option to Pololu’s line of motor controllers. The compact board—it’s almost the same size as the dual VNH2SP30 carrier board by itself—allows any microcontroller or computer with a serial port to drive two brushed DC motors with full direction and speed control, providing up to 13 A (continuous) per motor channel without a heat sink and tolerating peaks as high as 30 A.

 

The improvements over competing products include:

For a lower-power version of this controller, please consider the qik 2s9v1. For similar devices that support additional features and control interfaces, please consider the Simple High-Power Motor Controllers, TReX motor controller, and jrk 12v12 motor controller with feedback. For a robot controller based on the qik’s drivers, please consider the Orangutan X2 robot controller, which connects the VNH2SP30s to a user-programmable ATmega1284 AVR microcontroller.

 

• Size: 1.86" x 2.15" x 0.28"1
• Weight: 14 g1

• Motor driver: VNH2SP30 x2
• Motor channels: 2
• Control interface: non-inverted TTL serial (2-way); RS-232 serial (1-way)2
• Minimum operating voltage: 6 V
• Maximum operating voltage: 16 V
• Continuous output current per channel: 13 A
• Peak output current per channel: 30 A
• Current sense: 0.13 V/A
• Maximum PWM frequency: 19.7 kHz3
• Minimum logic voltage: 2.7 V
• Maximum logic voltage: 5.5 V
• Reverse voltage protection?: Y