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Re: Controlling robot with arduino
I have just purchase one of this arduino from AnyMark and I have done all the programming and I am ready to test it on a robot that we have design and pour our personal money. My question is how can you attached a solenoid? Would you hook it on the relay ports on the sidecard? or would you use a spike to operate the solenid, we are using 12V solenoids. Also I though about using this cheap relays that we use at my school for simple projects but the coil is rated at 12VDC as well and as far as I know the sidecard can put out a max of 5V.