Great to hear you had such success.
Maybe you can send me a picture of the 3d chips?
Regards,
Alex
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From: Rod Welland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Friday, May 25, 2007 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Emc-users]
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 06:20:45PM -0500, Jeff Epler wrote:
Then when it complets that row, it moves down by Stepover pixels to do
the same thing over again. If you want to move down by about .05 inches
each time, and you specified a Pixel Size of .005, you would choose a
stepover of 16,
On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 07:14:06AM -0400, Jack Ensor wrote:
I plan on wiring momentary push button switches in parallel with the
appopriate short cut keys on the keyboard. One of the problems I see is
that of providing for the 2 key combination required for the Home-All
function. I assume
Ok, I'm cheap. ... I have some small surplus 4 wire steppers. ((Nipon
Pulsemotor, 2A/phase 1.7 Ohms/phse. Type PJ55P1U36B)).
Where can I find a cheap controller (kit or prebuilt) that will drive these?
Yes, I want to use EMC. I have a HobbyCNC controller, but it doesn't drive
this kind of motor,
Jack,
I have drivers for bi-polar motors. See:
http://www.probotix.com/stepper_motor_drivers/SideStep
And just to be fair, you should look at the Xylotex AlienCNC drivers. You
will also find a number of other bi-polar drivers on eBay.
Len
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Many small drives for that current rating are designed around the Allegro
3977, which is a single chip driver with an integrated translator. It can
handle up to 2.5 Amps at 35V with appropriate heatsinking. If you really
want to roll your own you can download the spec sheet from
Javid Butler wrote:
I've got a machine with a Xylotex
3-channel drive that runs fine with EMC, but I think I had to do something
with the pinout. It's been a while but I think I had to swap some pins
around.
Yep, Xylotex's three channel board has step and dir swapped compared to
the
Thanks to Javid and Len! Got the info I need!
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