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Toy Motor Circuit with Timed Reverse Forward Action

Last Updated on July 6, 2019 by Swagatam 12 Comments

The post explains a simple programmed reverse forward motor circuit which is used for accomplishing a toy application. The idea was requested by Mr. Matthew.

Technical Specifications

I am a new follower of your website which is a great resource!

I need your help designing a circuit please.

My daughter has a project for school which is a motorized vehicle. I would like to be able to build a 2 stage timed circuit where a momentary switch would activate a forward motion for a few seconds.

Then reverse the polarity for a reverse action for a few seconds. The motor voltage would be 3v. It would be extremely helpful if you could assist this build. Thank you in advance.

Matty.

The Design

The proposed motor toy circuit which features an automatic forward reverse actuation using a sequential delay timer circuit can be visualized in the following diagram:

Referring to the above diagram, the T1, T2 stage along with the associated components form an astable multivibtator with an oscillator frequency period corresponding to the desired motor reverse forward timing period.

The TIP127 stage is the latch circuit for enabling a push button start for the circuit.

The IC 4017 executes the forward and the backward pulses for the transistor driver stage comprising of Q1-----Q4.

The transistor driver is configured as a H-bridge for facilitating the reverse forward motion of the motor in response to the triggers received from the IC 4017 outputs.

The circuit can be understood with the help of the following explanation:

When the push button is pressed momentarily, T3 receives a short ground pulse through the switch which initiates the transistor turning it ON and supplying a positive pulse to the circuit.

The initialization trigger causes a logic low to appear at pin4 of the IC 4017 which holds and latches T3 into a solid ON position even after the push button is released.

Simultaneously pin15 also receives a positive pulse resetting the IC such that pin3 begins with a logic high.

With pin3 initially high actuates the H-bridge and the motor in a particular direction depending upon the polarity of the motor wires across the bridge network.

Now T1 and T2 begin counting and the moment their set time lapses, pin14 receives a triggering pulse from the collector of T2 which forces pin3 high logic to shift to pin2.

The above condition instantly reverts the H-bridge polarity and causes the motor to initiate an opposite course of its motion, until the next pulse at pin14 of the IC arrives.

As soon as the subsequent pulse is sensed at pin14 of the IC 4017, the high logic at pin2 of the IC now moves a step ahead and settles at pin4 of the IC.

However since pin4 is associated with T3, a high at this pin immediately switches OFF T3, consequently breaking the latch and switching OFF the power to the entire circuit.

The toy motor circuit now entirely switches OFF until the push button is pressed again.

A 0.1uF capacitor should be connected in parallel with R2 so that each time power is switched ON T2 triggers ON first and enables a correct implementation of the system in terms of the set time intervals.

Adjusting the Time Delays

The time intervals can be set or adjusted as per user preference by altering the values of either R2/R3 or C1/C2 or both of these pairs.

Although the circuit is implemented as a toy here, it may have many interesting industrial applications and can be modified for executing several user specified programmed machine activations.




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    Sir i have a 24V PMDC specification is 3A, 65W and speed 15m/min. I want to rotate it in only one direction. I am generating PWM signal from atmega 32 but i dont know hardware portion i read lots of article but dont know hot do it. Can you please help me to figure out.

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    • Swagatam says

      Rakesh, you can connect it in this way:

      https://www.homemade-circuits.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/motor-arduino.png

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      Hi Sidheshwar, you can try the following concept for making your search light

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  4. ElecTroMan DIY AMPLIFIER says

    sir I have a Project bipolor function.. it will forward and reverse in one terminal

    i use this in esp8266 then the output of esp8266-01 is gpio2 and gpio0 using signal..

    In single terminal using signal like PWM Frequency:

    High frequency PWM the motor goes Forward,
    Low Frenquency PWM the motor goes Reverse.

    using a Signal

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3JcmtO_g_SdcFduRTdOQnExMUU/view?usp=sharing

    just like the function of the SERVO….

    thanks

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    • Swagatam says

      Thank you electroman,

      I appreciate the information you have provided. thanks for the update.

      Reply
  5. Unknown says

    I wan to use a 12v motor what changes should I make

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      no changes would be required…you can use the same circuit for a 12V application.

      Reply
  6. mbah latif says

    Dear Mr. Swagatam Majumdar…thanks for your reply…
    When the motor have not been connected , the transistors go very hot yet… I use the motor from cdrom…i think it's 5 volt motor ….with this motor I want to make simple panning control for my webcam…
    thanks

    Reply
    • Swagatam says

      Dear mbah, if its happening without a load then that should not and can never happen unless there's some mistake in the configuration.

      the two inputs to the bridge are supposed to be triggered alternately, if these are supplied at a time then this will lead to the conduction of all the transistors and a short circuit across the transistors and heating up.
      so please check how you may have configured the procedures

      Reply
  7. Swagatam says

    Dear mdah, what is the current rating of the motor? and is the motor rotating in the hbridge?

    but anyway the transistors will become little warm, you can add heatsink to the transistors….the heating is due to high current, even though the voltage may be less.

    Reply
  8. mbah latif says

    Dear Mr Swagatam…
    I have tried this schema yet, not at all but only h bridge …the transistors NPN go very hot…I use BD139 for NPN and BD 140 for PNP… even the suplay from 3v battery….whats wrong ? Thank you very much

    Reply


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