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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help needed
« on: December 18, 2010, 04:42:18 PM »
Ok, one bit of info missing is what the microstepping is that you have the drives set to.
How it works is this
200 steps to turn the motor one turn in full step but as you will have some microstepping you need to multiply by that to get the amount of steps to turn the motor one turn. Say you have the drive set at 8 microsteps (sometimes written as 1/8 or also sometimes 1600 on the Chinese drives) That would mean to turn your motor 1 turn it would require 200 x 8 = 1,600 steps. Because you are direct drive that rotates your screw one turn but as you need to turn it ten times for 1 inch (10TPI) it means 1,600 x 10 = 16,000 is your steps per inch.
Hood
How it works is this
200 steps to turn the motor one turn in full step but as you will have some microstepping you need to multiply by that to get the amount of steps to turn the motor one turn. Say you have the drive set at 8 microsteps (sometimes written as 1/8 or also sometimes 1600 on the Chinese drives) That would mean to turn your motor 1 turn it would require 200 x 8 = 1,600 steps. Because you are direct drive that rotates your screw one turn but as you need to turn it ten times for 1 inch (10TPI) it means 1,600 x 10 = 16,000 is your steps per inch.
Hood