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How to connect my steppermotor to BS2p

ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
edited 2003-11-02 18:19 in General Discussion
I have bought a new Nippon PF55 steppermotor. The instuktions
included were very poor. Now I need better information about how to
connect it to my stamp and what pulsewidth to use, and so on... Does
anyone have some tip or maybe even som code?
Anders Bergman, Sweden

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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-10-30 16:32
    Is this Stepper Bipolar or Unipolar?



    At 10:59 AM 10/30/2003 +0000, you wrote:
    >I have bought a new Nippon PF55 steppermotor. The instuktions
    >included were very poor. Now I need better information about how to
    >connect it to my stamp and what pulsewidth to use, and so on... Does
    >anyone have some tip or maybe even som code?
    >Anders Bergman, Sweden
    >
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  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-10-30 16:40
    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "nilsandersb" <abergman@h...>
    wrote:
    > I have bought a new Nippon PF55 steppermotor. The instuktions
    > included were very poor. Now I need better information about how to
    > connect it to my stamp and what pulsewidth to use, and so on...
    Does
    > anyone have some tip or maybe even som code?
    > Anders Bergman, Sweden


    Hi Anders,

    simple termonology.
    The Stamp would be the 'controller'.
    transistors on a board (or a seperate board with the switching
    components) would be the 'driver'.

    what are you using as the driver ?

    You can use a 6 wire motor and 4 transistors to step the motor.

    or you can use an H-bridge on each phase of the motor for 4,6 or 8
    wire motors.

    Typically the motors we typically use are 4,5,6 or 8 wire. Each
    motor would have 2 phases. And a 4 wire has 2 set phases, 5,6 and 8
    wire have 2 coils per phase and can be used as as single coils per
    phase or 2 coils per phase.

    A little more information is needed to let us know what you need to
    do.

    Dave
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-10-30 19:34
    You can find some info about your stepper motor at:
    http://www.nipponpulse.com/PFSpecs.cfm?ID=9

    Kevin

    Original Message
    From: "Dave Mucha" <davemucha@j...>
    To: <basicstamps@yahoogroups.com>
    Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:40 AM
    Subject: [noparse][[/noparse]basicstamps] Re: How to connect my steppermotor to BS2p


    > --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "nilsandersb" <abergman@h...>
    > wrote:
    > > I have bought a new Nippon PF55 steppermotor. The instuktions
    > > included were very poor. Now I need better information about how to
    > > connect it to my stamp and what pulsewidth to use, and so on...
    > Does
    > > anyone have some tip or maybe even som code?
    > > Anders Bergman, Sweden
    >
    >
    > Hi Anders,
    >
    > simple termonology.
    > The Stamp would be the 'controller'.
    > transistors on a board (or a seperate board with the switching
    > components) would be the 'driver'.
    >
    > what are you using as the driver ?
    >
    > You can use a 6 wire motor and 4 transistors to step the motor.
    >
    > or you can use an H-bridge on each phase of the motor for 4,6 or 8
    > wire motors.
    >
    > Typically the motors we typically use are 4,5,6 or 8 wire. Each
    > motor would have 2 phases. And a 4 wire has 2 set phases, 5,6 and 8
    > wire have 2 coils per phase and can be used as as single coils per
    > phase or 2 coils per phase.
    >
    > A little more information is needed to let us know what you need to
    > do.
    >
    > Dave
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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    Body of the message will be ignored.
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    >
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    >
    >
    >
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-11-02 17:16
    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "nilsandersb" <abergman@h...>
    wrote:
    > I have bought a new Nippon PF55 steppermotor. The instuktions
    > included were very poor. Now I need better information about how to
    > connect it to my stamp and what pulsewidth to use, and so on... Does
    > anyone have some tip or maybe even som code?
    > Anders Bergman, Sweden

    Some more info:
    The Stepper is supposed to be both Bipolar and Unipolar.
    It is an 8 wire motor, or rather two 4 wire sektions on top of each
    other, with 4 wires from each.
    bottom: blue, gray, purple and green.
    top (middle): brown, red, orange and yellow.
    On top of the stepper there is some kind of gearbox.
    As Kevin says there is more info at
    http://www.nipponpulse.com/PFSpecs.cfm?ID=9
    f.ex. the pulsewith. But I don´t really get it anyway...
    Is there perhaps anyone else who ownes a PF55?
    Thankfull for any help!
    Anders - the non electrical swede.
  • ArchiverArchiver Posts: 46,084
    edited 2003-11-02 18:19
    --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "nilsandersb" <abergman@h...>
    wrote:
    > --- In basicstamps@yahoogroups.com, "nilsandersb" <abergman@h...>
    > wrote:
    > > I have bought a new Nippon PF55 steppermotor. The instuktions
    > > included were very poor. Now I need better information about how
    to
    > > connect it to my stamp and what pulsewidth to use, and so on...
    Does
    > > anyone have some tip or maybe even som code?
    > > Anders Bergman, Sweden
    >
    > Some more info:
    > The Stepper is supposed to be both Bipolar and Unipolar.
    > It is an 8 wire motor, or rather two 4 wire sektions on top of each
    > other, with 4 wires from each.
    > bottom: blue, gray, purple and green.
    > top (middle): brown, red, orange and yellow.
    > On top of the stepper there is some kind of gearbox.
    > As Kevin says there is more info at
    > http://www.nipponpulse.com/PFSpecs.cfm?ID=9
    > f.ex. the pulsewith. But I don´t really get it anyway...
    > Is there perhaps anyone else who ownes a PF55?
    > Thankfull for any help!
    > Anders - the non electrical swede.

    Hi Anders,

    the motor is really 2 section. each section has 4 wires so it is an
    8 wire motor.

    Select one section and label it phase A, label the other Phase B.

    Isolate each coil so you have each pair of wires set apart. connect
    one of each pair in each phase so that you wind up with 3 wires from
    each phase.

    one wire is the center tap, the other two are then the single ends of
    the coils.

    This becomes a 6 wire motor, and is pretty much how it is done.

    (Note: at this stage, the wires may be connected wrong, but nothing
    will be damaged in this testing.)

    look in the files section under the folder stepper motors. the pdf
    shows a schematic of a 6 wire stepper. This is for a DRIVER circuit,
    your Stamp is the CONTROLLER.

    Remember, with no load, you don't need the nameplate amps, you should
    be able to make it spin with one quarter of the amps. (for sizing
    resistor for the test) 100mA should be fine as the motor is either
    5V or 12V and this crude driver will run on that voltage. at 5V and
    5 ohms the current would be 1 amp, but since you are testing and not
    driving a load, the 1/10th current only needs to move the shaft.

    use the 'full step' pulse train from the sheet to the darlington. 4
    discrete steps. keep each step 10uS or slower, as slow as you want,
    hours, days....

    program the Stamp to just send a pin high, pause for some time, then
    send it low and the next pin high, pause... repeat.

    very simple to do.

    IF the motor actually goes around in a circle you got real lucky !

    If it takes one step forward, then one back, then forward, then back,
    that would mean one of the coils is reversed. Remember that center
    tap ?

    Take one coil on one phase and reverse the connections. repeat the
    test. if that did not make things better, switch the wires back and
    try one coil on the other phase.

    Hopefully, you have 4 transistors to try this with.

    The alternate method is to create an H-bridge and isolate one coil on
    each phase.


    Dave
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