Questions tagged [stepper-driver]
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Stepper motor for wire winding step calculations
Stepper motor takes 200 steps/revolution without anything attached to the shaft. With a bobbin of 10mm in diameter and 50mm in length attached to stepper motor shaft, does it take the same 200 steps/...
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Bipolar stepper motor buzzing and heating with a DRV8825 driver
I followed these instructions to drive a couple of stepper motors from a Raspberry Pi 4B and two DRV8825 drivers.
I made the board, plugged in the 16 pin drivers, wrote a Python script to instruct the ...
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Optimal Protection Circuit Configuration for TMC2209 Stepper Motor Outputs
I am currently working on a project involving a stepper motor driven by a TMC2209 driver. I aim to implement effective protection for the motor driver outputs. According to section 3.7 of the TMC2209 ...
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Modifying a HY-DIV268N stepper motor driver
Drivers from the family HY-DIV268N-xA have these dumb switches that regulate the step. I'd like to use a microcontroller for that. Does anyone know if they can be modified to maybe replace them with ...
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Differences between a constant voltage "LED power supply" and a "standard" power supply
I'm looking for some input on a power supply problem...
I'm using a Mean Well LPV-60-36 power supply (output of 60 watts @ 36 volts, rated for 1.67A RMS) to power a DM542T stepper motor driver that's ...
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Using Power MOSFETs to interupt stepper motors
To preface I need to slave one of my steppers on a CNC machine however I have switches that help "square up" the gantry. The problem is this works on two separate drives and using the enable ...
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MOSFET VGS rating with Stepper Driver
I am building a PCB that consists of a stepper motor driver (DRV8711) and had a confusion with the N-Channel MOSFET selection. I will power the driver through a 50V supply and the driver mentions ...
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Controlling stepper motor with DRV8833
I’m trying to get a Nema8 stepper motor working with a DRV8833 controller. The stepper motor has 0.6 A specified on its label but no other data mentioned. Its the connections are A+, A-, B+ and B-.
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SPI Control of TMC5160-BOB using ESP32-S2 Feather
I am unable to drive a motor with the TMC5160-BOB using SPI commands. Anybody understand why?
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Arduino C Code:
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ESP32 Stepper Driver Library Issue
I have been having a wired Issue which I couldn't solve during the last two days :( I'm building a winding machine using a stepper. The Stepper runs fine with basic Arduino code but the stepper only ...
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How to fix overcurrent fault pin triggering stepper motor driver to stop? Or how to reduce current spikes?
I am using two DRV8825 stepper motor drivers. They each control a NEMA23 with a 50:1 gear box.
VREF is connected to the DAC of an ESP32 (datasheet). This is so I can control the torque. (I have a hard ...
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Project design review resources
I've spent the past week or so working on my first circuit board project, and I'm wondering what resources are available online or otherwise for reviewing and checking my design. I want to check to ...
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What is the purpose of adding capacitance to stepper motor windings?
I am looking at the schematic of the DRV8434SEVM evaluation board for the DRV8483S stepper motor driver and I see they've put these 3.3nF capacitors on the outputs going to the stepper motor coils. I ...
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Designing a unipolar stepper driver using STM32 MCU, lack of torque
I am working on my first robotics project which will hopefully become a desktop sized KUKA iiwa. Unfortunately, I have only just completed the first year of my electrical engineering degree so have ...
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Nema 17 Stepper Motor Weak Torque (A4988, Arduino)
I'm attempting to run a Nema 17 stepper motor using the common A4988 stepper motor driver. I'm running the motor with a Teensy 4.0, an Arduino-based microcontroller.
The main issue I'm running into is ...
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