Wiring confusion

[wendtmk]

Hi John,

I bought the 3 axis package with the 425 oz-in steppers, and I'm scratching my head over trying to follow your wiring diagram for hooking up the steppers to the 4030 drivers. The wiring diagram shows 8 wires from the stepper motor hooking into the driver. My steppers have only four wires, green, red, blue and black. I also noticed that the package on your web site shows that it has the KL23H286-20-8B stepper motor, while the package I received has KL23H2100-30-3B steppers, with the 3/8" shafts. The shaft size is fine, I just need to know where each wire plugs in on the 4030.

Thanks,
Mark

[wendtmk]

Hi John,

Haven't heard anything yet from you. Do you have a link for the 4-wire hookup to the 4030's?

Mark

[Crevice Reamer]

Maybe you should email or call him:

Support: Support@kelinginc.net

Tel: 630-254-8655
Fax: 847-850-0391

You might want to return those strange motors and get what you ordered.

CR.

[skmetal7]

you can wire the 8 wire motors in either parallel config or series config. thereby giving you 4 wires to hook to the drivers. take a look at the pdf for the 8 wire motors and it will tell you haw to hook them up. i have the 8 wire motors too and used the series config.

edit: oops just read that you have the 4 wire motors, so yeah you have it even easier now, but less options with the way you can wire it. no big deal.

[wendtmk]

The only big deal I have for wiring it is that I don't know which of the four wires does what. There's no wiring diagram, or spec chart for that particular stepper on John's web site.

Mark

[Kelinginc]

Here is the wiring info:

A + ---> Blk

A- ----> GRN

B+ ------> RED

B- --------> Blue

You can use your multimeter to check it
If you need to learn stepper motor, here is some refrence
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/step/

[wendtmk]

John,

Thanks for the info! And also thanks for the link.

mark

[wendtmk]

John,

One other question - what amperage on the dip switches should I set the 4030's to for this stepper motor? Will they handle the 2.7 or higher amps?

Mark

[jalessi]

The -30- in the product number signifies 3.0 amps per phase.


Jeff Alessi

[Kelinginc]

Hi Mark, are you ok now?

[Khalid]

He is okay i think

[wendtmk]

Hi John and Khalid,

Yeah, I'm alright now... ;-) I've been manually machining some of the parts I need for the CNC machine, and I haven't had a chance to finish up the wiring on the controller box. I should be able to have that portion done by the end of this week.

Mark