Questions tagged [stepper-motor]
A kind of motor that moves in steps.
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large voltage spike over shunt resistor even at no load
I'm trying to build a stepper-motor driver. Each windig is driven as shown:
at the moment, im feeding this with PWNM signals of constant duty cycle, just to see how everything response. (PWMs are ...
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Stepper motor vibrates, without turning
I'm trying to get a stepper motor to work, but having issues. I've done a lot of debugging, but still can't figure out what's wrong.
When I try to turn it around, it just makes a buzzing sound, and ...
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Minebea steppers 23km-k112-p3v , 23km-k036-p10v
Building a CNC product & got requirement of approx. 8 kg-cm (running) stepper.
fortunately we found few "23km-k112-p3v" and "23km-k036-p10v" steppers in box named "10kg Hybrid/Unipolar Steppers" ...
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I have a 3D printer and I cant figure out how to digitally reverse the x and y axes [closed]
There are red yellow gray and green wires, in that order.
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What stepper motor is this?
I am so sorry, I have to ask such a stupid question. I got these stepper motors from a thrift shop, the owner had no idea what these are. And these have all labels damaged. Can anyone help me ...
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What is this stepper motor mount?
I have an old ALPS plotter with, apparently, two dead stepper motors. (1980s new old stock, worked for about half an hour and then the torque gradually dropped off to almost nothing.) Sadly they're ...
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Circuit design and power management in an Arduino project with stepper motors and solonoids
I am working on a design for a Arduino driven project that controls a 1.7A stepper motor and 2 small solenoid valves. I am using a 12v power supply (Meanwell MDR-60-12) to power the stepper motor (...
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Determining/Specing the proper stepper Motor
I am trying to properly spec a proper stepper motor for a project I am working on. I am attempting to provide roughly 3000 pounds of compressive force (about 13300 Newtons) using a p series NEMA 34 ...
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how to use sensored BLDC as stepper motor
I am making a huge line following robot and using arduino & sensor BLDC motor salvaged from Segway. The problem is that I am not able to control the motor properly. If the PWM signal is low the ...
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What happens if you rotate a stepper motor by hand while it is powered?
There is some resistance to it, but it can be rotated without excessive force. When would this cause damage?
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DC motor accuracy with encoder
I am building a coil winding machine and I've already set up something that works. I used two nema17 stepper motors and tb6600 stepper driver cards. The problem is that motors are seems to overheating ...
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Can I Use 4 and 8 Wire Stepper Motors On The Same Driver
Short version: My friend's laser machine has a 8-wire bipolar parallel stepper motor, would it be a problem to use a 4-wire stepper motor that almost similar as 8-wire one. Can i unplug 8-wire motor ...
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Controlling speed and position of DC Motor
Is it possible perhaps with an Arduino to control the speed and number of revolutions on a brushless DC motor or a worm gear DC motor?
I'm asking because I know steppers and servos can do that but ...
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Stepper motor, why so many wires (10)?
I recently bought a stepper motor secondhand and out of curiosity opened up the back cover to see how the wires were connected, currently it looks like 3 phases are connected (4 wires, 3 phase wires, ...
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Calculating the linear travel per step of an actuator
I am using a linear actuator from Portescape. Part # 20DBM-L, 5V series D1B Bipolar. Datasheet Link, with ST SPIN 220 motor driver datasheet link to drive it, in full step mode. From the datasheet of ...
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What is pros&cons of using a unipolar stepper as bipolar?
I know that it is possible to drive a unipolar stepper motor as if it is bipolar. Clearly, for example, we can ignore center tap wires of a 6-wire unipolar stepper and drive it using a bipolar stepper ...
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Coupled interruption control for multiple closed loop steppers
I need some advice to make an interruption control system for my stepper motor drivers. I should probably add that I am rather poorly trained in electronics but eager to learn, so basic explications ...
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Using l6506 with digital pot to vary force output of stepper
I want to precisely control the amount of force being applied to a component - my plan is to drive my stepper linear actuator with the absolute minimum current to make it move, until it stalls out ...
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DRV8889: Unexpected voltage drop at output
I'm getting some unexpected behaviors when it comes to the voltage and current I see at the AOUTx and BOUTx pins. I must be missing something from my calculations from the datasheet.
Right now, I'm ...
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Can I use AC voltage from myRIO to power stepper motor?
I am using easydriver and arduino for a stepper motor provided on this website
The motor is 17HS3401S Stepper Motor and I think this is the correct datasheet found on the internet for the same. ...
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Stepper motor in high RF environment
I'm building a sort of "screwdriver antenna". In my case I have a motorized roller inductor. This motor is placed near the bottom of the coil (the coil is placed near the center of the vertical ...
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Can I measure torque accurately by an electrical or electronic method?
I am a Btech. student from India. We have been given a project in which we have to design a micro-torsion testing device.
We are planning to clamp the specimen and rotate one end by fixed angles ...
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can use these printer motors to made CNC machine? [closed]
can i use this motor to make a cnc plottor ?
is there any way to make a stepper motor using this motor?
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Determining motor position with EMI
I would like to determine the position of a motor based on its radio emissions, I do not have access to said motor but I am trying to reverse engineer it.
Here is what I know about it :
It has X ...
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TMC2130 stallGuard - SG_Result always 0
I'm working with the TMC2130 and I want to setup the stallGuard. The problem is that SG_Result in register DRV_Status is always 0. It doesn't matter with how much load the motor has to drive or how I ...
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What is the current limit of driving a linear actuator for 4 VDC at 12 VDC?
Please bear with me, if this is a stupid question.
I obtained a linear actuator of a family of linear actuators, here are the specs
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A4988 current limit formula: Where does the constant “8” comes from?
I am trying to calculate the VREF for my A4988 and while my A4988 is not from pololu I am using their formula over at https://www.pololu.com/product/1182 to calc the current limit.
The formula used (...
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Choosing a stepper for antenna tracking system
I am building a prototype for an antenna tracking system. The following animation will make it slightly easier to understand what I have in mind:
https://youtu.be/DZ0LRf6_Zew
The two antennas are: ...
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Why are stepper motors sometimes rated in AC voltage?
Now, I think I get why steppers are rated at (for example) 48VDC - as I beleive it's to overcome any back-EMF, and that's why stepper controllers are typically constant(/max) current devices - they'll ...
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Is A4988 and DRV8825 Current Limit Setting RMS or Peak?
I'm trying to aggregate information on config settings and current limit calculations for all the popular "StepStick" style motor drivers. However, I've noticed that while the older type (A4988 & ...
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Calculate inductance for ESD protection
I am trying to use TMC2130 for drive a stepper motor that has attached with plastic pulleys assembly. According to data sheet I have to concider about ESD protection due to plastic rotating assembly. (...
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Does supply voltage affects stepper motor driver heat dissipation?
Below is a block diagram of a stepper motor controller with an external mosfet h-bridge that drives one of the stepper's coils. Let's say that the coil has 2ohm DC resistance and 3mh inductance, the ...
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why stepper motor lose magnetism?
I have very old desktop style 3 axis cnc machine. There were 2 dc motors for X-Y axis and a unipolar stepper for Z axis. I replaced the old DC motors with unipolar steppers. I personally made the ...
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How to calculate the rotation of stepper motor for winding a thread on a reel
A machine which can be used to wind the thread of exact length on a reel using two stepper motors, one for rotating the reel(Ymotor) and other one is used for traverse back and forward(Zmotor).
So ...
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Arduino UNO, L298N Stepper Motor Drive Waveforms
I am driving an unknown stepper motor using a little red L298N board from eBay. The board is sometimes called Qunqi L298N Motor Drive Board Module. I used a 19.5V laptop power supply to power the ...
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How this motor can be mounted?
I am a beginner to motors. For one of the projects, I am going to use this stepper motor: https://www.faulhaber.com/en/products/series/am1020/
I am trying to mount this motor to a plate, however, I ...
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Should ferrite beads be closer to the stepper motor or to the motor driver?
Stepper motor, cable with ferrite bead, and dual H-bridge driver:
I noticed that the cable that came with these motors had the bead closer to one end. Does it matter which way it's wired as far as ...
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Nema17/A4988 + LED display pump, 5v circuit not complete?
I'm trying to build a pump from Instructables, with no experience at all. I appear to be pretty close but the 5V line from the Arduino does not power the driver or LCD screen via my perfboard, it ...
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How to easily power multiple components with differing requirements?
I'm a long-term software developer who hasn't touched a soldering iron since Uni. I've been mulling an idea for a hardware project for some time, and have cajoled a raspberry pi into managing the ...
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4 Phase 5 Pin high speed motor driving (turbomolecular pump driver)
I just recently purchased a broken Turbomolecular pump from eBay and repaired it,
now that it works again I need to build a low-cost driver for it.
It has 4 Phases and normally relies on hall ...
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Motor for large speed range
I am designing a chuck for which I need a motor which can go from 200rpm to 5000rpm. I tried a 1000KV BLDC with 12V supply, but the minimum rpm was around 1800. Also, I am not sure whether stepper ...
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Filtering power to stepper motor drivers for EMI
I have been using Allegro A5977 stepper drivers for a while now (a few years) and I had not too bad of a result meeting the EMI compliance targets even for CLASS B.
However I went by the seat of my ...
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Driving NEMA17 Stepper motor using leadshine driver
I'm trying to drive a NEMA17 stepper motor using LEADSHINE driver.
At the beginning of rotation Motor turns few steps in opposite direction and then turns toward the given direction. Why this is ...
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How do I work out spec of 24v dc motor?
I have a motor in a vending machine (picture) it only has these numbers on.
What I'm hoping to do is turn the motor on and off. However I have no idea what this motor is aside from 24v dc.
How do I ...
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How to implement ion acceleration and deceleration in stepper motor?
Actually, I am using pic microcontroller and software uses for programming is microC. One more thing I use a controller unit (DH542-D)for controlling bipolar stepper motor. I did read several articles ...
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stepper motor torque control
I am trying to make a sim racing wheel with force feedback using a closed loop stepper motor. I need to have variable torque applied to the wheel. If i use a transistor with a microcontroller to ...
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Two identical stepper motors behaving differently at higher (but below their rated) speeds
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My question might be short on specifics here when it comes to the motor-parameters, but I have been trying to understand a situation for the last 2~3 Weeks, and I still don't have an ...
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What kind of JST connector will fit this stepper motor?
I'm not familiar with JST connectors so please bear with me. According to the datasheet (here) this stepper uses a JST S11B-ZR female connector.
1) I'm confused since based on my understanding, S11B ...
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Why is low inductance important for stepper motors? [closed]
I’m building a CNC style device and am in the process of choosing the right stepper motors.
I read that it’s important to buy steppers with maximally 5mH of inductance.
Why exactly is that the case? ...
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Driving stepper motor with H-Bridge, how many Volts?
I know that stepper motors are usually driven with current-limiting chopper drivers and hence the applied voltage doesn't really matter (or does it?) and that's why specs of stepper motors don't state ...
