Beaglebone can source few dozen mA at 3.3V so you do need to put some controller to drive those motors.
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 2:47 PM, <renglun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. I'm looking at a tank-track chassis that comes with motors included. > Are they suitable for being controlled by a Blue or should I use an > external motor controller? For what it's worth, I'm looking at powering the > Blue with a 1600mAh LiPo battery. > > Here are the details of the motors: > Operating Voltage Range: 3~7.5V > Rated Voltage: 6V > Max. No-load Current(3V): 140 mA > <https://maps.google.com/?q=3V):+140+mA&entry=gmail&source=g> > Max. No-load Current(6V): 170 mA > Max. Stall Current: 2.8 A > > Thank you. My apologies if this query is miscategorised. > > > > -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/beagleboard/5b983893-2918-4af7-8de4-333c839d2677%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/5b983893-2918-4af7-8de4-333c839d2677%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/CAC%3D1GgG8AN%3DTu2xD-NvFRooBC23Hx6ZMs1V1fX79uktrmsV22g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
