Michael Jones wrote: > Interesting, these motors are HUGE for floppy drives and such? > > Well, there are other places these resistance-limited motors are used, but they invariably trade performance for cutting a few more cents out of the driver circuit. > I'm looking into replacing the motors with something MUCH more > efficient however, until the budget allows, I'm kinda stuck with these > for now. In the meantime, I'd like to at least make the current > system work as efficiently as possible. The question is how do I > figure out the correct timing for the system as is? > > I'm not an expert on these driver chips, and don't even know what is making the drive signals to them in your case. > I've been looking at some of the NEMA23 motors from: > http://www.kelinginc.net/index.html > at around 300 oz-in. I figure they will be MUCH better than the 83 > oz-in with the high resistance/voltage and such. > > The current stepper drivers are L297/98 based and I'll probably be > keeping these as Geko's are kind out of my budget right now. > Gag! 1980 technology at it's worst. Any good bipolar microstepping driver will inprove things, and should be able to be used later with better motors.
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