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« on: January 16, 2007, 12:04:24 PM »
Well I googled and found lots of circuits concerning stepper drives, and stepper pulse generators. but the thing is, none of them controls the number of pulses sent out. For instance, I know I need the stepper to pulse 400 steps for it to position an indexing table, all the circuits I found, could make the motor move at a specified frequency, but none of them started the motor, pulsed 400 steps and then stop, and stand by for next operation.
The cubloc option sounds viable, you tell it how many steps and at what frequency you want it to output and it does so you can then use that into a gecko driver. Very simple, and with some not so complex loops, you can even ramp the speed as not to accelerato too abruptly.
Hope it works. Im still looking for some other options though.
Thanks
Fernando