Thursday, 22 March 2018

Re: [7x12minilathe] Re: Mini-Mill CNC, First Test of X-Axis.

 

I'll just add one thing to Chris's excellent explanation: modern stepper drivers have 4 motor output pins (usually labeled A+, A-, B+, and B-), but stepper motors will have 4, 6, or 8 input wires. 


If your motor has >4 wires you'll need a multimeter to figure out which of the 4 wires to connect. There are YouTube videos showing how to do this, but basically you're trying to find the 2 pairs of wires with the lowest impedance between them—those are your A and B pairs.  The other wires can just be twisted together in impedance-matched pairs.  

Tim

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On Mar 21, 2018, at 10:32 PM, Chris Albertson albertson.chris@gmail.com [7x12minilathe] <7x12minilathe@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

When you work with stepper motors you don't actually interface to the motor.   You interface to the driver.   The driver connects to both your power supply and to the motor.   The driver is so simple you don't need a drawing as there are just two interface pins

1) "step" the leading edge of a pulse will cause the motor to move one "step".  typically a about 0.9 degrees or less.  These are switches on the drive that set the step size.
2) "direction" this pin is either high (5 volts) or low (grounded) and determines in which way the motor steps CW or CCW.

That's it.  two pins.   If you want the motor to rotate at 60 RPM then you send step pulses at (say) 400 pulses per second.  The motor stops when you send no pulses.

Given that you are using a modern driver,  the above is all you need to know.




On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 6:26 PM, 'Johannes' johannes@lavoll.no [7x12minilathe] <7x12minilathe@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

Hi Mark

I have worked with 555, but not with stepper motor, can you give us a drawing ?

/johannes

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Emne: Re: [7x12minilathe] Re: Mini-Mill CNC, First Test of X-Axis.

RE: pulser for simple stepper control. I made one for zero dollars -- I already had a 555 timer chip, and my electronics scrap box had the perf board, resistors and capacitors I needed to make a simple clock generator. A slide switch allows me to select the direction, and I can adjust the clock rate with a pot.

I used the thing to run a stepper as a low-speed diamond grinder for shaping and sharpening carbide scrapers. I bought a set of 6" diamond lapping disks from a lapidary supply outfit, 150 grit up to 3,000. The low speed keeps everything cool (particularly since I run the bottom portion of the disk through a pool of water). It does a good job for me. I made a simple arbor to mount the disks using my lathe.

The ebay pulse generator looks like a good value if you're not able or willing to DIY one.

Mark

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