Questions tagged [stepper-driver]
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Decoupling capacitors used in a remote controlled stepper motor circuit
I am building an Arduino-based remote controller for a stepper motor-driven variable capacitor for a magnetic loop antenna to be used with an amateur radio transmitter, which will create a fairly high ...
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Need help figuring out how to organise a system to run a stepper motor at low speed without Steps-skipping
TL;DR : How to prevent step-skipping with a NEMA gearbox motor at low speed.
Edit: following @glen_geek comment, removing the load on the system seems to remove the problem, hinting at inertia and ...
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Excessive noise in stepper current
I am currently utilizing the TMC5160-BOB module to operate a stepper motor with a current rating of 2.4 amperes via the SPI interface. The supply voltage for this system is 29 volts. I am ...
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Can you control the speed of a DC motor with a stepper motor controller?
I want to make an RC car and for that I need to control speed. Can I use a stepper motor controller to do this?
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Stepper Motor spinning twice when should be spinning once
I'm trying to make a stepper motor spin exactly 90 degrees. There are 200 steps for one spin but when I do this it spins twice.
I am using the L293D motor driver (Found here), with a Creality 42-40 ...
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Why is stepper motor jittering when approaching body part near driver until I touch the motor?
I am controlling a Nema17 stepper motor with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 using an A4988 stepper motor driver.
When my python program finishes, the motor (which has still power) doesn't move, has I expect.
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CL57T stepper driver not working in closed loop mode
I've bought https://www.ebay.de/itm/393715526356 CL57T with NEMA 23 and it works well in open-loop mode but in closed-loop it goes into 7-blink error mode.
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Closed loop stepper with unshielded wires
I've bought a closed-loop stepper from a somewhat reputable manufacturer but was surprised to see 2 things:
Power cable is MUCH shorter than the signal cable (they both go to the same place - driver)
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Zero-Crossing Detector Circuit for a PWM-Generated Sine Wave
Given this PWM,
How to detect a zero crossing without a dual-voltage supply? There is only VCC and GND.
I've tried using a low-pass filter approach, but the PWM frequency is not guaranteed to be ...
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MotionKing 17H2A Stepper Motor with BigEasy Driver not working. Making noise, but not turning!
I'm trying to make the MotionKing 17H2A stepper motor to work with my BigEasy driver and Arduino Feather 32u4 LoRa.
It's just making some noise, and not turning around.
This is the diagram for the ...
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TMC5160 stepper driver - one phase seems to be offset and clipped
I am using the TMC5160 stepper driver with a stepper motor. I am configuring it in SPI mode from an STM32F4. I used the sample commands from the datasheet on page 116 (section 23 getting started) with ...
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Is it possible and safe to switch between the motors when required?
I want to control a two phased stepper motor in an application, so I chose this driver. There is also a requirement for a brushed DC motor in the application. I want to save space eliminating an extra ...
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How to "debug" a DVR8824 stepper driver board?
I am trying to control a stepper motor following a description. I have the exact same elements.
I do not have any tension on the down-right pins (they are supposed to be 5V and power the RPi).
I ...
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Is there a concept of "rotor is blocked" feedback in a stepper motor?
I am building a mechanism to move a lever via a stepper motor controlled by a Raspberry Pi (following this tutorial) and I will be using a Stepperonline HS1715 motor.
I can estimate the angle I will ...
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Driving 3V NEMA 17 motors with GRBL + CNC V3 Shield
I want to drive some motors using the GRBL + CNC V3 Shield.
Seeing the specs, I see that it can drive four A4988 or DRV8825 stepper motor drivers.
These drivers, are suitable for 8.2V~45V stepper ...
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Does the filter capacitance required for a stepper driver scale with the drive current?
In the datasheet of the TMC5130 (and that of other driver ICs), Trinamic recommends using a low ESR capacitor of 100uF for filtering the power supply in order to cope with the current ripple caused by ...
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Can't drive stepper motor (42BYG) with a Raspberry Pi
The end goal is to make a chess board that moves the pieces by itself with help of a plotter. We already got most of the software. We only need to make the plotter work but we are having trouble with ...
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Can I control a TMC2300 with ONLY the UART interface?
I'm trying to design a board to drive some small stepper motors. They each take a phase current of about 180 mA. I want to try the TMC2300.
In the datasheet it says it is controled by either the dir/...
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DM542 driving Nema17 controlled by a Teensy 4.1, random stepper stalls
I am trying to drive 4 Nema17 stepper motors using 4 DM542 drivers, controlling them using a teensy4.1. The step and direction signal is level shifted to 5V, the DM542 are powered using a separate 48V ...
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How to translate a connection (Step Motor Driver)?
I am following this connection to get a driver to an Arduino and a step motor. The original connection is this:
Green wire --> Step
Blue wire --> DIR
Red wire --> +5V
My driver, However, has ...
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Can't power DM542 stepper motor driver with "Drok" power supply vs. Keysight at the same voltage
I am trying to use a Drok power supply with a DM542.
I am using 15V to to drive the DM542. For the Keysight U8031A, it works (the green light turns on.) For the Drok, I bought the 10A version, and ...
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Maximum speed Nema-34 stepper motor can handle
I've got used 34HS8801 NEMA34 stepper motor which I am experimenting with. Unfortunately, dtasheet doesn't provide driving voltage, nor does it provide maximum RPMs.
Now, I would like to see how fast ...
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Can I power an external stepper motor driver while stepper motor is disconnected from driver?
I am building a laser cutter and I am using external stepper drivers to power stepper motors. I have a driver for an optional stepper motor for a rotary attachment. I would only disconnect or ...
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Is a cooling fan on my Nema34 driver necessary?
I'm driving my Nema34 with a 3-phase driver seen below. It has a small cooling fan which produces unnecessary noise. The driver also has a heat sink across all front cover (on which the fan is ...
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Newbie: A 4-wire stepper motor whose colors don't correspond to those from driver. How to wire?
I have a 4-wire stepper motor (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/NEMA17-Stepper-motor-data-sheet_fig9_313427253). I know by testing that the A,A' circuit is [green, red] and the B,B' circuit is [...
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Stepper Motor Driver Current Regulation: Lead Acid Batteries
I'm controlling two NEMA 34 6A stepper motors through HSS86 stepper motor drivers. The drivers take AC and DC, between 20 and 80v. I'm using them to control a golf cart via remote control, and I ...
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How to ameliorate over-current from stepper motors' back EMF?
I tried changing up the power supply. I tried 15 V, and one with a higher current rating (8 A). Here is the datasheet of the I have been mainly using: EPP-200 24 (volts).
There are two stepper motors ...
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Power supply to an A4988 driver
I am starting to use the driver A4988, typically used for NEMA 17 motors and many others. As you may know, it has to separated VCC/GND pair of pins, one to supply the driver, the other for the motor ...
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Stepper motor has own encoder, can I connect encoder pins to microcontroller and see feedback?
I am using closed loop stepper motor with motor driver. Here is my driver CS-D808. I am using this with microcontroller.
I want to stop this motor always certain location after 5 to 10 turns. I wrote ...
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TB6600 Overstepping
I've got a TB6600 stepper motor driver connected via a common cathode connection to an Arduino (Elegoo) Nano microcontroller (1/32 microsteps, 1.5A, unknown NEMA 17). I'm asking it to move a number of ...
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Stepper motors both rated for higher current but the NEMA 23 stops and the NEMA 17 keeps going, could it be a (hardware) low quality motor issue?
I am using the DRV8825 stepper motor driver. The NEMA 17 is rated for 1.2 A and the NEMA 23 I'm using says it's rated for 2A. I have two NEMA 23s and they both soon choke out (stop moving).
When I was ...
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Significance of the pulse setting on stepper driver and performance
I have a stepper motor driver DM860D and I am using signals from an Arduino to control a NEMA 23 stepper motor.
Can someone explain what the significance of the pulse/rev setting on the driver is, or ...
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Bipolar stepper motor spins very slowly and makes a loud noise
I got a custom PCB. I am using DRV8428P driver (here is the datasheet) for a stepper motor. The problem I am facing is not being able to have the stepper rotate ...
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Bipolar stepper motor doesn't spin but vibrates
I got a problem with controlling a bipolar stepper motor. It doesn't spin but vibrates.
Here is the schematic of my stepper driver:
DVDD supplies 5v DC.
Here is the wiring map from the motor's ...
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TMC2130 Stepper Motor on Raspberry Pi. SPI issue?
For the last few days I've been struggling to get a NEMA17 (1.5 rated current) stepper motor to function with TMC2120 driver (vref = 1.0) and I'm all out of options now to try, so I'm here looking for ...
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Torque half step/full step in stepper motor
At an exam, I was asked the following question:
A stepper motor has the greatest torque on its shaft in the 'halfstep/full step'.
Everywhere on the internet it says that full step gives the most ...
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Purpose of PWM in a stepper motor driver
I was looking into the operation of a certain stepper motor driver, and probed the phase lines to see how they looked. As expected, I found that there were two 50% duty cycle signals with a 90 degree ...
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For the DVR8825 IC chip (not the carrier/module), nSleep and nReset need to be HIGH, why does connecting them to the IC's 3.3V out not work?
A breadboard prototype was made using the DVR8825 carrier/module:
A microcontroller's HIGH was connected to nReset and nSleep. Now a prototype was made using the IC/chip. It's 3.3V output was ...
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Replacing a single dual shaft stepper motor with 2 stepper motors
I have a stepper motor that is 42x42x60mm (width, length, height) and has a shaft in the front and back of the motor. This thing has finally given out and won't rotate even when powered down. But I ...
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Closed Loop Stepper Motor/Driver
I have been tasked with building a motion control demo box. The controller MUST include an Omron Delta Tau Power PMAC (CK3W-AX1515P).
I can be flexible with the other components (motors, drivers, etc.)...
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Why do stepper motors draw less current at higher speeds?
I have an A4988 and a NEMA17, when I set the current limit to 1.5 A and the motor runs at a low speed of 0.2 RPS I measure the current and effectively it draws 1.5 A.
Now when I run the motor with the ...
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What voltage does a stepper motor need to be run at for optimal torque?
Take this motor for example.
It is rated for 24-48V, 4.2A/phase, 0.9 ohm coils, and 3 Nm holding torque.
Using a motor driver like this, what is the ideal voltage to run the motor at to achieve the ...
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How to set holding torque in 3 phase stepper motor drivers?
I have no previous experience with stepper motors. I want to use such a 3-phase driver in a 3-phase open loop stepper motor.
I looked at the datasheet here, but I couldn't see any information about ...
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Calculate the correct current limit for driver A4988
Im using the driver A4988 together with stepper 28byj-48. Ive read somewhere that the correct current limit on 28byj-48 is somewhere between 0.1-0.15 v. However if I feed it with 12 v there is a high ...
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BLDC vs Stepper motor
How is a BLDC motor fundamentally different from a stepper motor? They both operate in the same way where you manually energize coils to force the rotor to turn.
Is there a reason you couldn't do ...
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Rotary encoder connected to stepper driver
I want to control the speed of a stepper motor using a rotary encoder (OMRON E6B2 series) conected to one of the PUL terminals of a DM556S stepper driver.
¿Is that possible? ¿Which encoder type would ...
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Raspberry Pi motor hat not a 1 to 1 with stepper driver?
Just a general question that someone hopefully can answer.
I've been working on getting a large stepper motor setup with a Raspberry Pi, so I went for a DM556T stepper driver.
I've gotten the smaller ...
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How to achieve high speed microstepping?
I used an Arduino Uno with A4988 driver with 1/16 microstepping and tried to achive the highest speed possible. Using AccelStepper library
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DC Stepper Motor vs DC Gearmotor
We are trying to come up with a way to turn an auger type shaft as slowly as possible to continuously dispense a very small amount of particulates (~ 5 grams per minute). Would a DC gearmotor with a ...
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Stepper Motor Driver (2CM560) ERR ports
I have a Kinco 2CM560 stepper motor driver. There are 2 ports on this driver named "ERR+" and "ERR-" that I can't figure out fully what is their functionality! why we need this ...
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