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How to Determine DC Motor Current/Amp Draw (for beginners)
Why people recommend it
Measures a DC motor's no-load and stall current with a multimeter to estimate its draw; used by beginners sizing a motor driver.
Watch for: stall current is far higher than running current
In their words
I'm a complete noob so I just followed this guy's tutorial:
smntnz on electronics.stackexchange.com, Oct 2017. CC BY-SA.
I watched this video which shows a method of empirically estimating the amperage draw of a DC motor if you only know its voltage.
hotmeatballsoup on electronics.stackexchange.com, Dec 2022. CC BY-SA.
