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Help me with a design: Solenoid Driver

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Solenoid Driver

I'm doing a project here at my university and it requires that I control a design of mine using a Solenoid Driver with a PIC microchip (pulling/pushing a block of wood). Does anybody know of one that they may have used before or one that they would prefer I use? Any help would be very much appreciated!
 

Re: Solenoid Driver

Is your solenoid ac or dc operated? A foolproof method is to use a relay to apply power to the solenoid. Then have one of the outputs of your processor drive a transistor in series with the relay coil to apply poser to the coil.
 

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Re: Solenoid Driver

flatulent said:
Is your solenoid ac or dc operated? A foolproof method is to use a relay to apply power to the solenoid. Then have one of the outputs of your processor drive a transistor in series with the relay coil to apply poser to the coil.
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well... i don't quite have one yet. lol. i just know that i need one to push/pull this block of wood. a signal will be sent from our pic to the solenoid motor and the motor will either push or pull the block of wood (to change polarities of the main circuit). i just wanted to know if anyone knew of a solenoid motor that could do that that they could recommend. it would help me immensely.
 

Re: Solenoid Driver

What you need is a stepping motor. They have application notes on how to drive them with a microcontroller.
 

Solenoid Driver

Yes you can use a stepper motor

you can run this for a predifined no of steps with speed control forword or backward.
 

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