3v dc motor with 3.3v wemos d1 mini
Posted: Thu Apr 11, 2019 10:13 pmI am trying to power a 3v dc motor with a wemos d1 mini GPIO pin, which i know outputs 3.3v. I got the motor out of an automatic fish feeder and it has a 4.7uF capacitor attached in parallel which ran on 2 AA batteries in series. The problem I am running into is that it is not always running. If i connect it to the 3.3v pin on the wemos it will run perfectly. But when I connect it to D2 and set it to HIGH sometimes it turns on and sometimes it does not, and other times it seems like the motor is slowly slowing down. Any advise on how to get this working? I am not in need of speed or direction control just turning it on.