G2 Motor Driver 18v25 + arduino

Hello
I’m trying to run a simple DC motor with G2 High-Power Motor Driver 18v25 using PWM from the arduino to control the motor speed.
I want to use the whole range 0-255 for one direction only, and change the direction using the DIR pin (LOW / HIGH for CW /CCW) that on the Motor driver.

In my setup:
when the ‘pwm’ value is 0-126 the motor turn to one direction
when the ‘pwm’ value is 128-255 the motor turn to the other direction
when the ‘pwm’ value is 127 the motor is at break state and there is a terribly noise from it.

I wm reading a vlaue from a potentiometer and than setting this value ad PWM signal for the motor.
in the process i’m printing the 'pwm value on the screen just to see it

The wiring that i did is:

Motor Driver        |          arduino
GND                 |          GND
DIR                 |          2 (Digital Pin)
PWM                 |          3 (Digital Pin- PWM~)

The arduino code is very simple:

#define DIR 2
#define PWM_motor 3
#define pot A0

int pot_read = 0, pwm = 0;
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);
  pinMode(PWM_motor, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(DIR, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(pot, INPUT);
}

void loop() {
  digitalWrite(DIR,HIGH);
  pot_read = analogRead(pot);
  pwm = map(pot_read, 0, 1023, 0, 255);
  Serial.println(pwm);
  analogWrite(PWM_motor, pwm); // Send PWM signal
  delay(10);
}

Can you please explain me what i did wring, or how properly use your motor driver

thank you for the help.

Hello.

Changing the duty cycle of the PWM signal sent to the PWM pin should not change the direction of your motor; that should be controlled by the DIR pin. I do not see any problems with your diagram or code. I suspect you might have accidentally swapped your DIR and PWM connections.

If you double check those connections and still have problems, can you post pictures of your setup that show all of your connections?

Brandon