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Subject: 
Re: Stepper Motors
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
Date: 
Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:22:09 GMT
Original-From: 
Carlos Fernandez <softech@ptdprolog.SPAMCAKEnet>
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I purchase the motors from Jameco.

I connected the stepper motors on the motor headers.

From left to right ( left meaning next to the RJ jack ) in this sequence:
Brown, Skip,Red,Blue,Skip,Yellow.

What do you mean by the pattern in the LED's ?


-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Kornhauser (Comp) <daniel@laguna.fmedic.unam.mx>
To: Carlos Fernandez <softech@ptdprolog.net>
Date: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: Stepper Motors




On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Carlos Fernandez wrote:

Hi, am just getting started with the Handy Board.  I was wondering if you
could help me.  I am trying to control some stepper motors.  The steppers
are 2 phase bipolar stepper motors.  I connected them just like you said • in

Where did you get your motors from ????

your page, but when I tell them to move they don't.  They move forward • and
backward and tremble then stop.

This could be caused by :

1 Incorect wiring
2 You trying to move them to fast...



This stepper motors have four wires.  Brown +A, Red -A, Blue +B, • Yellow -B.

This aren't exactly my colors :-(.
I think The A means that the Brown and Red are in the same coil ??


I connect them :
    Brown, Skip,Red,Blue,Skip,Yellow.

In what pins do you conect them ???


With the stepper motors I received a paper that says:

    Step        +A        +B        -A        -B

        1            +          +           -           -
        2            -           +          +           -
        3            -            -          +           +
        4            +           -          -            +
        5            +          +          -            -

I was not sure how to read this, but hey whats the worst that could
happened.

Well it seems clear that A+ And A- are in a same coil because they are
allways in oposite potencials...
Did you check that the patern you generate with the leds in you handy
board ???

I wrote a small program trying to interpret this:

    void Stepper(void);
        int intSteps=30;
        int intStep;
        lng lngDelay = 5L;
        for (intStep = 0; intStep < intSteps; intStep++)    {
            /* step 1 */
            fd(0);
            fd(1);
            msleep(lngDelay);
            /* step 2 */
            fd(1);
            bk(0);
            msleep(lngDelay);
            /* step 3 */
            bk(0);
            bk(1);
            msleep(lngDelay);
            /* step 4 */
            fd(0);
            bk(1);
            msleep(lngDelay);
            /* step 5 */
            fd(0);
            fd(1);
            }
    ao();
}

The program does not work.  The stepper motor does the same thing, it
varibrates, moves forward a little, moves back a little and stops.

Sorry I don't remember what patern does fd and bk generate in the output
of the handy board.
But with the information you have on you motor the job does not appear
dificult, you just have to try bk(0), bk(1), fd(0) and fd(1) and see what
patern they generate and mach it with the specification you gave me above.
Notest that steps 1 and 5 are the same, so you should have a 4 diferent
paterns, the same that generates bk and fd....


If you could give me any help I would really appreciate it.

Hope I could help, you job seem fairly easy, you just have to try to find
the solution a little more. And try to find an other motor to play with
there is plenty of broken floppys. Sometimes the step motor can just be
broken....


Thanks
De nada....


Daniel Korhauser





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