Quick question about DC motor

[I-Jeff-I]

Hi I have a quick question.  I just hooked a DC motor up to an L293D H-bridge so that two buttons spin the motor in one direction or the other.  Sometimes though, I need to spin the motor a little bit to get it started.  When I press the button it twitches, but doesn't start moving.  Other times, it works fine, usually after it is already spinning.  Is this normal?  Is there an easy fix to this?

[SmAsH]

Hmm, do you know what the stall current of the motor is? It might be that the h-bridge cant supply the motor with enough juice to start it but it has enough to spin it...

[I-Jeff-I]

this is the motor:
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2102828

and this is the h-bridge:
http://www.st.com/stonline/products/literature/ds/1330/l293d.pdf

[SmAsH]

Well, the page doesn't say what any of the info apart from voltage is
The H-bridge can supply 600mA and 1200mA at peak...
Unless we can get a ballpark figure of the motors current draw this will be a hard one to figure out.
Have you tried putting one motor on both of the channels to double output current?

[I-Jeff-I]

wow that worked, thanks a lot.  I guess I should have checked out the specs first :/ thanks again!

[SmAsH]

Anytime