I think the OP wants to drive stepper motors using four digital lines for one stepper motor; A, B, C, D phases, much like one would directly drive a LM298.
Regards Roland On 28 April 2011 10:06, Ian W. Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > Lawrence, > > Is this driving conventional steppers or something > different. Is it a better system than microstepping? > > Ian > > On 28/04/2011 02:59, Lawrence Glaister wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I am not sure what you are referring to by the term phase drive. > > I use my mill and lathe with stepgen set to stepping type 2 which is > > quadrature drive ( drive waveform is identical to a quadrature encoder ) > > Sometimes this mode and some of the higher stepping type modes get > > referred to as phase drive. > > If you need sample configs for lathe and or mill with quadrature drive, > > drop me an email and I will send them along. There are very few changes > > required to the sample stepper files... changing the stepping type, and > > renamimg the connections from step/dir to something like phaseA/phaseB. > > cheers > > Lawrence > > > > On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 09:33 +0900, Mark Thomas wrote: > >> A quick question. I have EMC2 controlling 3 different machines through > step/direction drivers I also have an older phase driver which is connected > to a small lathe using TurboCNC I believe I have read that EMC2 will indeed > work with phase drives but am having a hard time finding info. Any ideas on > where to start? > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
