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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: 0miker0 on October 26, 2010, 11:20:31 AM

Title: CD Rom Stepper motor settings or recommendations?
Post by: 0miker0 on October 26, 2010, 11:20:31 AM

I'm almost done making a tiny CNC machine table using CD Rom mechanicals. The stepper driver is something I pick up on ebay for a cheap price. It works well driving the larger 6 wire type stepper. Very smooth step motion. Has anyone had success driving the 4 wire motors using Mach3? Right now it works but not very smooth. I've tweaked randomly the Motor Tuning settings with very little luck.

Thanks,
Mike

Title: Re: CD Rom Stepper motor settings or recommendations?
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on October 26, 2010, 11:32:52 AM

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Has anyone had success driving the 4 wire motors using Mach3?

Hi Mike,

Welcome to the forum.

I think all my steppers are the 4 wire bipolar type (but not out of CD Roms  :) ).

Tweakie.