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General Mach Discussion / Using a stepper as a spindle motor
« on: June 23, 2006, 09:53:09 AM »
Newbie question here.
I am working on building a cnc lathe using Mach 2 for the controller and a Xylotex 3 axis kit. Since I only need 2 axis for the lathe and I don't need over 200 rpm on my spindle I want to use the extra motor that came with the kit as my spindle motor. It is a standard 200 step per rev motor with the board set for 1/8 micro stepping. In the motor set up screen I set the steps per unit for 1600 (200*
. When I do my dry run the motor rpm is no where close to being right. Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong?
Edit: I forgot to add that I am just using the Mach 2 demo right now. I did not want to buy the full package until I made sure I could make it work.
I am working on building a cnc lathe using Mach 2 for the controller and a Xylotex 3 axis kit. Since I only need 2 axis for the lathe and I don't need over 200 rpm on my spindle I want to use the extra motor that came with the kit as my spindle motor. It is a standard 200 step per rev motor with the board set for 1/8 micro stepping. In the motor set up screen I set the steps per unit for 1600 (200*
. When I do my dry run the motor rpm is no where close to being right. Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong?Edit: I forgot to add that I am just using the Mach 2 demo right now. I did not want to buy the full package until I made sure I could make it work.