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This little module is a breakout board for the IRF520 MOSFET transistor. The module is designed to switch heavy DC loads from a single digital pin of your microcontroller. Its main purpose is to provide a low cost way to drive a DC motor for robotics applications, but the module can be used to control most high current DC loads. Screw terminals are provided to interface to your load and external power source. An LED indicator provides a visual indication of when your load is being switched.
Specification:
Size: 33*24mm
Voltage: 3.3V, 5V
Ports: Digital Level
Output load voltage: 0-24V
Output load current: Platform: Arduino, MCU, ARM, raspberry pie
Using original IRF520 Power MOS, you can adjust the output PWM Drive up to 24V allows the load, such as LED lights, DC motors, miniature pumps, solenoid valves PWM dimming LED can be used to achieve stepless dimming, variable speed motor
Package Included:
5* IRF520 MOSFET Driver Module
Matt R.
July 30, 2025
I like the gate LED. They work good and I have no real complaints but, I wish it was a mixed bag of n-type and p-type and there is a resistor on board that I wish I could easily change (see me whining). Most people will not want this. I got what they said it was but not whirled peas. I see many comments and complaints about the same thing in one form or another. So here's the thing, coils bite! you can get ten times the voltage you think you can when you turn a coil OFF. (like in a motor or relay) . This is physics! And Amazon does not yet carry products that violate natural law.So these should not be used with Arduino without diode protection! and then a transistor. Of course if you're not driving over 9V you don't need these anyway. Then you will have a 9V or more, rail to work with. Then you can use an NPN transistor (almost any will do) with a pull up resistor and you're good to go. This method will work and it will prevent releasing the boards magic smoke. And I'm sure many little Arduino lives have been saved by this not working directly at 3.3V.
Engineer
June 30, 2025
I've bought these more than once for hobbyist projects. It works great to allow you to control a higher power device. In one application, I used this to power a 12V relay. The Arduino can't provide 12V so I used this to control the relay. The relay then switched 120V AC to turn on and off a pool pump. This device can only go up to 24V DC which is why I needed the relay to switch AC power. If you connect this to a relay, consider adding a flyback diode for protection (google that for more information). In another application, I used this to control a large 5V LED sign. It was 5V but required about 900mA of current. The Arduino can't provide that much power, so this device allows for that (assuming you hook up a power supply in purple with enough capability). The attached image depicts these connections. I made this to explain it to my kids who helped me wire this up. The other review with the schematic was incredibly useful to me as an engineer, but I made this to make it more straightforward for an 11 and 12 year old. Overall a good device. My pool pump application has been working for 2 years and I'm hoping this light controller will have similar success.
Scott Ripley Crawford
April 24, 2025
This is a nice little driver board. I really like the layout, led and connectors. However, the FET choice isn't the best to be driven by a 3.3V control signal. There are tons of better options. I recommend poking around on DigiKey for a better FET for your application
Jim C
April 12, 2025
The specs say it'll work with 3.3v, but don't expect these to be reliable at that level. I'm running a 12v input, the logic pin opens the gate, the red LED comes on, but when a load is attached on the output, the voltage is zero. When there isn't a load, it has 12v on the output rail.I'll keep them for lower power uses (like 5v devices), but a little disappointed they're not working with my 12v.
Kristen E. Stephens
April 6, 2025
DOES NOT WORK! I've 12v going Im, and 12v going out. Wired up to the top comments photo. The output from the mosfet is VERY weak and my 12v LED is very dim. Tried shuffling wires to no avail.3 out of 5 don't work with ardino so RIP my led project. Some of these don't quite allow all of the voltage to go through with a 5v signal.
Mace Moneta
February 18, 2025
I needed a couple of esp8266 PWM controlled 12VDC case fans. For each I used a Wemos D1 Mini, a buck converter (also from HiLetgo), and a 4700uF capacitor (to stop fan whine) with this board. I installed Tasmota on the D1 Mini, and configured a PWM which connects to the signal line on this board. Works great, run cool. Quick 15 minute project.
Ramell C.
November 22, 2024
I bought this device to help delay power up for some components on my project until after the micro controlling it all has powered up and gone through initialization. connected via this device I would get dim lighting on the relay, but no functionality. It worked as expected if I manually connected it to 12v when expected. I disconnected all of my devices to be safe and then tried manually triggering the gate using 3.3v. I noticed it does not trigger until almost 4v. I then set my power supply to 5v and then triggered the device to notice my relay was behaving as expected. Hooked everything up and manually triggered using 5v, worked as expected. This is getting 2 stars because of false advertisement in the description, but I was able to solve this by getting a step up for the incoming 3.3v to 5v which I shouldn't have had to do.
mark
November 13, 2024
They worked perfectly, although I have only used one of them so far. Have it hooked up to my 3d printer to control the led lights on it.
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