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Re: Stepper motor

2004-05-04 by Phil

I'm not sure what you mean by that but i didn't see anything about 
controlling current and phase.  There are stepper controller chips 
that do all this and handle the power required.  You might go check 
out these tutorials on steppers http://209.41.165.153/stepper/  and 
then look up the following chips:  ST's L297, Allegro A3977

It shouldn't be too hard to control a stepper from a micro but you'll 
still need an H-Bridge of some ilk to drive the coils.  PWM comes 
into play when you want to drive the stepper at 5-10X its rated 
voltage.  A microcontroller + pwm is useful to support "micro" 
stepping

Phil

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, jay marante <jaythesis@y...> wrote:
> Is driving a stepper thru PWM then to a shift register
> alright? -jay
> 
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