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- From: charath@cs.tamu.edu (R. Charath Ram)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Stepper Motor Help !!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.192739.14529@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 19:27:39 GMT
- Sender: news@tamsun.tamu.edu (Read News)
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- This is a question for stepper motor gurus out there. We recently bought a few
- stepper motors with gearboxes from a surplus parts store for a project. We've
- been trying to drive the motors and have run into a problem. I've described it
- below :
-
- The motor looks like this (from one side)
-
- ---------------------------
- | | | |
- | |||| | |||| | |==== shaft is about ----> axis.
- | |||| | |||| | |
- --||||------||||-----------
- |||| ||||
- BWRY BWRY
-
- The motor has got two connectors on it with 4 wires each, labelled (B)lue,
- (W)hite, (R)ed and (Y)ellow. The B and W wires are shorted on each connector.
- What we did was to ground the BW wire and pulse the R and Y in sequence. We
- found out that the connector on the right drove the shaft forward, while that
- on the left drove the shaft backward. We also discovered that the motor would
- not run if any combination of the right and left connectors was pulsed. In
- other words, we needed to energize the right connector's wires to move forward
- and the left connector's wires to go back.
-
- Our problem is that when we apply a torque on the motor shaft, the motor
- sometimes starts rotating in the opposite direction!! The torque is pretty high.
-
- Does anyone have any ideas on a better way to drive the motor (I mean
- connections, pulse sequence, etc) so that we can develop more torque and
- prevent this problem of direction reversal?
-
- Please reply by email to charath@cs.tamu.edu
-
- Thanks
-
- - Charath Ram
- Robotics Lab, Texas A&M University
-