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74*24x-based motor drivers compared
Very similar, but you need to know the differences



In many ways, both the 74*240 and 74*245 are equally handy for BEAM use; both have 20 pins, and so the main difference that most folks will care about is that one inverts drive inputs, while the other doesn't. Out of curiousity, I decided to torture test the two chips to see how they compared under load.

As I've noted on the 74*240 and 74*245 drive pages, the available drive current is a function of both your supply voltage, as well as of the output voltage you can tolerate. Below, I've plotted a comparison of the data I collected from these chips:

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Voltage drop as a function of drive current and supply voltage -- here, driving a load between a single buffer and ground
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Voltage throughput as a function of drive current and supply voltage -- here, driving a load between a single buffer and ground
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Voltage drop as a function of drive current and supply voltage -- here, driving a load between a pair of buffers
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Voltage throughput as a function of drive current and supply voltage -- here, driving a load between a pair of buffers
(click to expand)

As you can see, the chips behave very similarly (more so than I really expected). In fact, you only see much of a difference when you really push the chips to their limits.


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