On Thursday, January 05, 2012 08:31:05 PM gene heskett did opine: > On Thursday, January 05, 2012 03:36:36 PM Cathrine Hribar did opine: > > Hi gene > > > > Wanted to ask where you found your steppers? > > > > I see that they pull 6 amps, what is the voltage and size? > > > > Thanks > > > > Bill > > I bought all those from Jeff at Xylotex, 3 ea of the 262's he had > originally, then bought a 4 axis kit with 425's when I needed to add a > 4th axis. And 6 amps might be what the 425's need when wired parallel. > They are 8 wire, in series & currently getting about 2.35 amps/phase. > The 425 motor on the Z drivers ios the only 425 installed ATM, and > could do more than that 2.37, but ISTR I had them set for 2.4 > amps/phase when I cooked the 4 axis Xylotex board so as that seemed > sufficient, I set the new MM-542's for about that same (2.37) amperage. > > The 262's are sometimes called a double stack as they are long, and the > 425's are often called triple stack because they are even longer. > I went to Jeffs page and found that the motor I've been calling a 262 is actually a 269, and it has a 2.8 amp/phase rating.
I also hauled the drivers box down to the garage and found out why the ABC motor was running hot. It had the 50% throttle when idle switch set ok, but the switch next was miss-placed so it was getting 4.2 amps when moving, but it never lost a step so I doubt the armature was hurt. and 2.1 when idle. Set them all to 2.84 amps & left it running idled for about an hour with heating of about 7 or 8 degrees, since that is only 1.42 amps when idling. Sweet. But that new D525 computer will be next Monday getting here, so I'm still figiting about. I don't mind wasting time, I am decently good at it, but I hate enforced idleness. I also booted the old box and found its latency sucked, just moving the std sized glxgears window around on the screen took the jitter from 16 u-secs to around 120 u-secs. Where can I find some real docs on this isolcpu thingy? Thanks all. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> "If the King's English was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for me!" -- "Ma" Ferguson, Governor of Texas (circa 1920) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users