I have a 6 wire stepper that consists of 2 center tapped windings. it's about 8 ohms per winding with a center at 4 ohms. it's 200 Step 1.8 deg/phase.
I programed an arduino with a basic stepper controller sketch and hooked it up to 4 MOSFETS and tied the center taps to +.
I get a stepper that turns, slowly, and has very little torque. I fix printers at work and I have seen some steppers FLY, im sure this can go faster.
the problem i believe is that the stepper controller that i programmed only has one MOSFET on at all times, and some drivers I have seen keep 2 on and flip-flop them both.
I have been trying to get this to turn and be fast and torque like for hours and im kinda getting fed up with this thing! lol
does anyone have anything that is made for driving this type of stepper? maybe someone has a sketch written in C that i can compile to a chip and run this thing?
Thanks!
I programed an arduino with a basic stepper controller sketch and hooked it up to 4 MOSFETS and tied the center taps to +.
I get a stepper that turns, slowly, and has very little torque. I fix printers at work and I have seen some steppers FLY, im sure this can go faster.
the problem i believe is that the stepper controller that i programmed only has one MOSFET on at all times, and some drivers I have seen keep 2 on and flip-flop them both.
I have been trying to get this to turn and be fast and torque like for hours and im kinda getting fed up with this thing! lol
does anyone have anything that is made for driving this type of stepper? maybe someone has a sketch written in C that i can compile to a chip and run this thing?
Thanks!