Anyone have any theory's on how to drive one stepper motor but off two driver circuits.
To clarify things a bit. I have copier that drives a stepper motor. I need to drive the same motor from another circuit. I was going to t into the logic of the board but this is not possible and the motor is driven directly from a control board.
The motor voltage is 24v. I can drive the motor via a pic and stepper motor driver but if i connect both at the same time I would expect smoke as a result.
Assuming they are uni-polar? (at least five wires) then you can drive them from simple open-collector NPN transistors (or FET's) - this means no smoke even if they do both try and drive at the same time. Obviously BOTH sets of drivers need to be like this!.
I like what your saying, so I should switch A-A and B-B with the relay? Im driving the motor with stepper motor driver chip, should I pick up the 24volts from the original driver and just feed that into my driver chip or will that not be necessary. Just hook up the phases?
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i am working on a project where i have to drive a stepper motor with the help of a PLC. I have ControlLogix 5000 PLC with me.What stepper motor driver should i select?moreover how do i program the stepper motor for clockwise and anticlockwise rotations????