On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:44:45PM -0400, Dean Hedin wrote: > My next problem is that I have discovered that the steppers on this > machine are 5 phase. Granted, These are very precise German made > stepper motors but I don't think I will be able to find a low cost > controller to drive them. Unless somebody out there knows of an > economical solution that I have overlooked.
emc's software step generator can produce 5-phase waveforms (see step types 11-14 in the PDF documentation), though this feature has probably not seen much testing. This doesn't save you from designing and building the power portion of the stepper driver, though. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
