Hi everyone
I'm designing an apparatus that's going to slowly rotate a small 10" turntable with very little weight (~2 LB) over long periods of time. Let's say, 1 RPM for 7 days straight. I'm using a worm gear setup with a planetary gear motor rated at 2,124 oz-in. (12VDC) with Max No-Load Current: 0.53A. I realize this might be overkill for this application.
I'm using an arduino to run this setup. With that, will any L298N based motor controller work for this? What goes into the reliability factor for motor controllers? I don't want this to die on me in 2 years.
A key factor is that I need it to fit into a small space. I have about 65mm*55mm and height: 40mm of space to fit the driver in.
Thanks for your advice!
Pratiken
edit: I did try searching. There doesn't seem to be a lot on the topic of motor controllers and reliability. I suspect for industrial applications, proprietary controller boards are assembled, no?