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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: wwenter on April 13, 2015, 02:19:34 AM

Title: stepper motor sing quite a tune when move at slow feed rate
Post by: wwenter on April 13, 2015, 02:19:34 AM

I am new to this but motor move well and sound good when tuning and move in axis with arrow tabs
when I load roadrunner g code to test run and set feed rate at 14 in motor sing a tune in y axis and get some vibration X axis does the same but not as bad. Is this normal with stepper

Title: Re: stepper motor sing quite a tune when move at slow feed rate
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on April 13, 2015, 03:44:55 AM

Stepper motors will sing and it is normal.
However, the volume of the singing will depend a lot on the quality of the motors and the quality of the drivers (as well as the age of the listener's ears  ;) )

Tweakie.