Shaffin Bhanji wrote: > Hello, > > I am currently using the Xylotex 3-axis package with 4 motors, can we > run 2 stepper motors on a single y-axis? Has anyone configured that? Any > ideas, options on configuring such a setup? > You want to run two motors off one driver? This is generally not recommended. If you really want to try, you can connect the motor/s windings in series. That makes sure the current in both motors is the same.
If you have an extra driver, and assuming you are using the stepgen component to generate steps by software, it is fairly easy to route the step and direction signals to two outputs on the parallel port. The one thing to be careful with is that you want the two motors to stay in sync so as not to twist the gantry. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
