Driver = Electronics to power the motor
Break out board = PCB to wire PC parallel port to drivers.
Hi
In the title it is tated: Stepper Drivers and Break Out Boards
What is a Stepper Driver and what is a Break Out Board?
Willy
Driver = Electronics to power the motor
Break out board = PCB to wire PC parallel port to drivers.
Thank you
Here is a not very good picture of the 3 axis board. I am only populating it for one axis at the moment.
uhmm, I'm gonna build me a 3axis in one board too
I'm just waiting for the chopper thingy.
nice one tachus42.
mhel
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The "Chopper Thingy" works perfectly I have got one axis of the 3 axis board and the chopper converter built and have been spinning a motor with it just now. At 1.75 amps/phase nothing gets hot,the fets are barely warm. I'll layout a 3 axis version but if you want to order the parts it should be safe to go ahead.
The driver board input filter might be a bit marginal for Mach1 etc it works but the 74hc14 isn't getting a full voltage swing from the clock input. I will get back with the proposed changes probably just changing the 10k resistors to 4k7.
tach,
Excellent! How fast is Mach1 clocking?
Phil
that's so cool(well literally since no heatsink attached )
thanks, I'm going to start looking for parts.
mhel
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I haven't tried pushing for speed yet just initial testing at 15 volts with a 2.5 volt motor, 8000 steps/sec. The maximum clock pulse width for mach1 seems to be 14uS which matches the filter now that i have done the calculation (70kHz) i had a solder bridge (not in the filter)when i put the board together. Trouble shooting with my logic probe(not the one on the board) i couldn't see the clock pulses on the output of the filter - hence my suspusion it might be marginal. But now i think its probably ok.
tach,
Does your spice have any graphical capabilities? I'd be interested in the waveforms of the chopper adapter.
Phil
Last edited by pminmo; 08-08-2004 at 06:49 PM.
If anyone is interested, here is the Newark part numbers I dug up for the one axis unipolar discrete board.
I had some problems finding the right capacitors, the 0.1uf is still missing. I need a hand with those.
For those who dont have DigiKey nearby it might be helpful (I hope).
The last number in line is the Newark Part No.
Part Value Device Description Newark #
C1 .1uf CAPACITOR problem?
C2 .1uf CAPACITOR
C4 220pf CAPACITOR 50N796
C5 220pf CAPACITOR 50N796
C6 10uf 35WVDC CAPACITOR 03B2071
C7 10uf 16WVDC CAPACITOR 92N5047
DIRECTION PINHD-1X3 PIN HEADER
IC1 74HC14N Hex SCHMITT TRIGGER 18C7606
Or (CD40106N in certain situations)
IC2 7805 VOLTAGE REGULATOR 09F1514
IC3 CD4030N Exclusive OR 06F2471
IC4 CD4013N Dual Flip Flop 06F2395
JP1 PINHD-2X5 PIN HEADER (optional)
JP2 PINHD-1X2 PIN HEADER
LED1 LED3MM LED 81F3726
LED2 LED3MM LED (optional)
R1 10K RESISTOR 84N2322
R3 270 RESISTOR 84N2381
R4 270 RESISTOR (optional)
R6 10K RESISTOR
Q9, Q10, Q11, Q12 IRFZ44 Power FET 29C9778
X4 W237-02P WAGO SREW CLAMP 10B8704
X8 W237-02P WAGO SREW CLAMP
X9 W237-02P WAGO SREW CLAMP
Konstantin.
The Mosfet specification has changed it is now IRLZ44 or similar logic level mosfet.
Newark part number for the 0.1uF (100nF)caps
33C9487
desc
Polyester,100nF,10/10%,Polyester,100V,Radial,5.08mm,Lead Spacing
And the Mosfet IRLZ44: 06F8665
Here is some of the spice output for the chopper converter. The simulated motor has 1mH and 2 ohms on each half winding and the supply is 40 volts.
Cyan is the output voltage and orange the current supplied by the mosfet. Blue is the current in the undriven half winding ie the flyback current which flows in both half windings and is half the value of the current from the supply as it's flowing in twice as many windings. Magenta is the gate drive wave form.
Here is the 3 axis chopper converter it's designed to mount on top of the driver board. There holes can be drilled in it to allow screwdriver access to the screw terminals below. I have also broken out the extra parallel port signals from the 10 pin header to screw terminals.
great work,
thanks 'really appreciate the effort you guys are putting
into this, since you don't make profit out of it.
mhel
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Thanx for the part numbers tachus.
For toner transfer of the discrete unipolar driver, what scale to use for printing of the "Board Copper 600 dpi monochrome bitmap (mirror image)(.bmp)" ?
Konstantin
First revision already - there was on small track missing also made some improvements to the power plane.
Boy configuration management is getting confusing! Ok my website is updated on the single channel board documentation and I included a parts reference for both single and 3 axis boards for Digikey and Newark.
http://webpages.charter.net/pminmo/cncelectronics.htm
Phil