Hi,
I am driving two small DC hobby motors in a gear box assembly,
that drives two tank tracks. I wanted to power the F628,
SN754410 and two motors all from the same 4AA batteries.
If I drive the two motors right off the 4 AA batteries,
the tank tracks are powerful and can drive over a thick
book.  However, when I power the pic/SN754410/2 motors,
the motors are barely able to turn the tracks ?

In the F628, I have port A set as digital, and set ra1, and
ra0 high and low to turn on motor a, and follow the same for
ra2 and ra3, for motor b (through the SN754410 of course.)
The SN7554410 is just a 1 amp version of the L293D.
port b is set as output and all pins low.

I quess I'm just looking for a sanity check, I can't believe
the F628 and H bridge chip are using up so much current
that the motors can't even turn the tank tracks ?
I have both enable pins on the h-bridge chip tied to the +5v
supply through a 10k resistor.
Any one familiar with these chips ?
Any thoughs on what's happening ?

Thanks,
Kevin

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