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orac original stepper drives

Post by Barry_Scott » Tue 17 Jan , 2012 13:15 pm

I am trying to interface a breakout board to the step and direction inputs on the original drives.

Could someone describe what is required.

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Re: orac original stepper drives

Post by Denford Admin » Tue 17 Jan , 2012 13:18 pm

What drives ?
SD 2 ? ... viewtopic.php?t=438
CD 20 ? .... viewtopic.php?f=54&t=3586

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Re: orac original stepper drives

Post by Barry_Scott » Tue 17 Jan , 2012 20:51 pm

is there a difference in how they process the incoming signal?

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Re: orac original stepper drives

Post by angel-tech » Tue 17 Jan , 2012 21:31 pm

the step and direction points are in different places

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Re: orac original stepper drives

Post by Barry_Scott » Thu 19 Jan , 2012 18:03 pm

What i need to know is what input are they expecting.

+5v +12v +24v

how much current is required.

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Re: orac original stepper drives

Post by angel-tech » Thu 19 Jan , 2012 18:08 pm

12v, and if you do a search on here for digiplan there's a circuit describing how to drive the step and direction inputs from a parallel port

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