You will have to be careful as they will talk on other lines. You can also limit the effect on homing switch issues and things along that like when you add a ceramic capacitor across the lines of the homing or similar switches. That flattens out the spikes nicely. Rainer
On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Jon Elson <el...@pico-systems.com> wrote: > Douglas Pollard wrote: >> I bought some cable to run stepper motors off of. I was told it was >> shielded. It is not. If I try to use this am I going to have problems >> caused by stray signals or static? Is it likely to be alright or am I >> looking for trouble?? >> > If you don't have encoders or other sensitive signals out in the > machine, and are careful to route the cable away from other stuff like > the input signals to the stepper driver, you should have no problems. > If your limit or home switches act up, you may need to use shielded > cables on them. > > Jon > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations > Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of > expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry > leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf > and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- _________________________________ Rainer M. Schmidt Complex Consulting LLC b...@complexllc.com VoIP (646)-233-1002 FAX (646)-435-9216 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
