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By btidey
#75124 The brand of L298N should not matter. There are cheap modules on eBay if you are prepared to wait for overseas delivery but typically quite a mark up for local supply.

Pin7 (enable) is supplied with a link to enable so that using 2 control lines you can run the motor at fixed speed one direction or reverse. If you want to control the speed then you take the enable link off and feed a PWM speed control into Pin7. As it is a geared motor then you may not need speed control for your application.
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By Barnabybear
#75150 Hi, I know you have moved away from stepper motors but I have had great success with them (all be that I had to use one at each end of my larger blinds). I’ve put a link below of some details, they might be of use.

http://doityourselfchristmas.com/forums ... interested