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- From: markz@ssc.com (Mark Zenier)
- Subject: Re: Kearfot Variable Reluctance Stepper Motor
- Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
- Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 20:19:08 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan08.201908.3363@ssc.com>
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- Tim Deagan (timd@fenian.dell.com) wrote:
- : They were manufactured by SINGER and are labeled;
- : Kearfot Variable Reluctance Stepper Motor
- : They have four leads; Black, Brown, Red and Orange
- : RE, OR and BR all have 32 ohms between any pair, BL has 18 ohms
- : between itself and any other lead. (3 phase stepper?)
- :
- : Sequential stepping of the OR RE BR leads does not do anything
- : but make the shaft vibrate.
-
- All VR steppers have at least 3 windings. They don't have any
- permanent magnets in them, and are polarity insensitive, like
- a solenoid. My guess is that the black lead is the common.
- So putting current from the black lead to the other leads in some
- sequence should move the motor. Drive currents are either
- on or off, (unlike the driving a Permenent Magnet stepper in
- two winding (4 wire) mode).
-
- Driving any one out of the three windings should cause the rotor to
- step to a postion, and switching the drive to another winding will cause
- it to step one unit either way. You can get more torque by driving
- two out of three windings at the same time.
-
- One way to think of a simple VR stepper is 3 solenoids hooked up to
- a crankshaft, arranged like a radial aircraft motor.
-
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- Mark Zenier markz@ssc.wa.com
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