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Parallel bipolar stepper motor

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Former Member over 10 years ago

I have been testing the L6480 with a NEMA 17 and 23 motor. I got the NEMA 17 to work by entering the Ke , mH and the ohms in the BEMF tool. Once I got the 17 working fine I started working on the NEMA 23. I tried the 23 valves in the BEMF tool and it will not go over 600steps/s. The NEMA 23 is a 8 wire parallel bipolar motor, is there anyway this could be causing a problem? Just as a test, I disconnected the coils in parallel. so I only had 4 wires hooked up and it worked fine.

 

 

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  • Workshopshed
    Workshopshed over 10 years ago +1
    600 steps/s sounds reasonably high to me, here's a calculator to see what your motor should be capable of doing. The loading might affect the maximum speed and it will skips steps if you go run too fast…
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    Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed +1 verified
    Thank you for replying. I found the problem with my settings on the L6480. I just had the current set to high. I lowered it down to 0.3A and it works fine. The L6480 is running great at 2050 steps/s or…
  • Workshopshed
    0 Workshopshed over 10 years ago

    600 steps/s sounds reasonably high to me, here's a calculator to see what your motor should be capable of doing. The loading might affect the maximum speed and it will skips steps if you go run too fast or load it too much

    http://www.daycounter.com/Calculators/Stepper-Motor-Calculator.phtml

     

    You can wire an 8 wire motor in different configurations to give different characteristics

    http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/B1CC4C64ABBC7D3C86257BC70017B9E2

     

    The Nema numbers only refer to the sizes

    http://www.piclist.com/techref/io/stepper/nemasizes.htm

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    0 Former Member over 10 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    Thank you for replying.

     

    I found the problem with my settings on the L6480. I just had the current set to high. I lowered it down to 0.3A and it works fine. The L6480 is running great at 2050 steps/s or 600rpm.

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