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I am trying to build a robot, which needs motors to roll around. So I was trying to control two DC motors with H-Bridge that comes with Arduino StarterKit(H-bridge motor driver [L293D]). I used Sketch that looks something like that enter image description here

I did read that Arduino needs separate powering, but i did not use any only USB connection. I connected 5V that comes from arduino to where + pin from battery should have been connected and motors were controlled and working. However when i tried using 9V battery and connecting it as seen on above picture ,H-bridge did not control mototrs and nothing was working. There is also another aspect - when robot was touching the surface then wheels did not move aka motors did not rotate and when you picked it up motors accelerated to quite some speed. Also when robot was on the surface and connected via USB, the PC made these USB connecting sounds repeatedly. I am not sure when RX and TX stopped working. Power LED and L13 LED do work correctly.

Any ideas? Is it Fixable?

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  • Probably not - connecting a higher voltage to the 5v line likely killed it. As for your performance issue, bipolar bridges such as L293/L298 have a lot of loss, so on batteries you may do better with an FET device like a TB6612FNG - but beware it is more delicate in the face of electrical abuse. Did your bridge get hot? What is the voltage & current ratung if your motors?
    – Chris Stratton
    Feb 2, 2015 at 13:27
  • I did not touch the bridge so I do not know if the bridge got hot or not. Motors operating voltage is 1.5V to 3,3V and 10000rmp. What do you mean "connecting a higher voltage to the 5v"? I never connected 9V battery to arduino's 5V pin.
    – Annux3
    Feb 2, 2015 at 14:18

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You should definitely avoid connecting anything else than 5v to these 5v(!) PINs. The Uno has regulators, but these only work when powered through the power-dc-connector (or USB). You can easily buy a 9v-block to dc-jack cable to connect power to the right point easily.

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The "5V" pin takes only regulated 5V input. Your schematic shows the the board powered here, and you mention 9V battery. That's not a good idea.

If you have 7V-12V, then you can supply the board via the "Vin" pin. It passes through the same regulation circuits that the DC jack does.

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoBoardUno

VIN. The input voltage to the Arduino board when it's using an external power source (as opposed to 5 volts from the USB connection or other regulated power source). You can supply voltage through this pin, or, if supplying voltage via the power jack, access it through this pin.

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May be your ATmega328 IC would have been damaged or ATmega16u or ATmega8u chip was damaged. I also got same few days ago.

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