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    DC Motor

    How to Change the Direction of Rotation of a DC Motor?

    • Categories DC Motor, Electrical Machines
    Testing a DC Motor

    There are two types of DC motors – Brushed DC motor and Brushless DC motor. The direction of rotation of these motors is controlled by different methods.

    Table of Contents

    • Brushed DC Motor
    • Brushless DC Motor
    • Using a Microcontroller
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    Brushed DC Motor

    Low Voltage DC motors

    The small DC motors (which has 12V or below 12V) made up of permanent magnet i.e. it contains a permanent magnetic field. If we want to change the direction of the shaft we change the polarity only. Because it contains only armature winding only. 

    Another method is to use an H-bridge to control the direction of a DC motor. It is a special circuit which allows motor rotation in both directions. From four terminals of an H bridge, you can control the direction of a DC motor. The method is briefly explained in this article. 

    High Voltage DC motors

    direction of rotation of dc motor
    Change the Direction of Rotation of a DC Motor

    The high voltage DC motors (which has 220V or above 220V) made up of temporary magnet i.e. field and armature have separate winding. So if we change the polarity of the supply the total circuit will change. Due to that, the motor will rotate in normal direction. 

    If we want to change the direction of the shaft we need to change either field or armature supply. Take care, that you change either the field or the armature wires. If both are changed at the same time, the direction remains the same. Refer to the figure above.

    Brushless DC Motor

    For a 3-phase brushless DC motor – you’d need to change commutation order, this is slightly more complex because how to do that depends on what kind of position sensor is being used.  

    For hobby-type brushless motors, like the ones you’d find in an RC car or quadcopter, and other motors that use sensorless control for position detection, you can simply swap any two of the phase connections.  You can also reprogram the motor driver controller (if such facilities exist).

    For devices that use hall sensors or other low-resolution position sensors, you’d have to also switch one phase connection and a corresponding hall sensor. Alternatively, you can reprogram the motor driver controller.

    For motors that use absolute position sensors like encoder wheels, you can only do this by reprogramming the motor driver controller.

    For 3-phase brushless DC motors, if it tries to commutate in the wrong order, you can risk damaging the motor or the motor driver.

    Using a Microcontroller

    There are many things which you can do with your DC motor when interfaced with a micro-controller. For example, you can control the speed of motor, you can control the direction of rotation, you can also do encoding of the rotation made by DC motor i.e. keeping track of how many turns are made by your motors, etc. So you can see DC motors are no less than a stepper motor. 
     
    Usually, H-bridge has preferred the way of interfacing a DC motor. These days many IC manufacturers have H-bridge motor drivers available in the market like L293D is most used H-Bridge driver IC. 
     
    basic bridgeThe name “H-Bridge” is derived from the actual shape of the switching circuit which control the motion of the motor. It is also known as “Full Bridge”. Basically there are four switching elements in the H-Bridge as shown in the figure below. 

    As you can see in the figure above there are four switching elements named as “High side left”, “High side right”, “Low side right”, “Low side left”. When these switches are turned on in pairs motor changes its direction accordingly. Like, if we switch on High side left and Low side right then motor rotate in the forward direction, as current flows from Power supply through the motor coil goes to ground via switch low side right. This is shown in the figure below. 

    High Left High Right Low Left Low Right Description
    On Off Off On Motor runs clockwise
    Off On On Off Motor runs anti-clockwise
    On On Off Off Motor stops or decelerates
    Off Off On On Motor stops or decelerates

    H-bridge can be made with the help of transistors as well as MOSFETs, the only thing is the power handling capacity of the circuit. If motors are needed to run with the high current then a lot of dissipation is there. So head sinks are needed to cool the circuit. 

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