OK so engineering at its best with last minute work. I have my wedding reception September 29th 2018 and I am building a drink robot (machine) to dispense the cocktails 16 oz a cup in under 1 minute. So far i have the housing and other mechanical's built. Now its time to spin up a board fast and in a hurry. On my breadboard, I have working a Teensy 3.5 (5 Volt tolerant), tip31ag (5 volts on) transistor, 12 volt peristaltic pumps, and hall effect encoder if i choose to use it. This is a slow application my encoder produces 3 pulses per revolution at 20 Hz. I am updating/controlling 10 motors. Now on to my question.
A good engineering friend of mine , i.e. the programmer for this project, is very adamant that i take every precaution to separate the 12 volts from 5 volts and place ferrite beads, capacitors, and etc in circuit with the motors. I am not here to deny his concerns, i think he is right. What i want to know is because of my slow speed can i just put a 0.1uF cap on the motor leads and call it good? I don't have the time to over engineer but i also don't want to worry about this thing while I am on the dance floor of my wedding party. I hope to do this right (well enough) the first time. For my power rails, I had planned on 12 volt lead acid batteries for power. This will come in on a terminal block where i will then split off to the tip31's/motors/diodes and 5 volt linear regulator (possibly 7805, 10uF to gnd on input 12v and 1uF to gnd on output 5v). How should i separate the grounds? Looking for as simple as possible.
Please any help you can provide as i don't have time to order more than 1 board version. I'll post schematic pictures as i go.
Thank you all,
Jon