Re: Oatley Card Finished

Hi Joe, i do you know that LED's are polarity senitive. When new the
leads are different lenghts to show what lead is the anode and
catdode. Also the case usally has a small flat on it and it should
line up with a flat on the silk screen.

Wally K.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, Joe Vicars <jvicars@c...> wrote:
> G'Day Mates!
> I have finished and tested the Austrailian, Oatley 2 axis
bipolar
> drive kit #K109. I now have a 2 axis Etch-a-Sketch. I am pleased
to
> report that it works although there are some things that should be
> mentioned.
> 1. Documentation with the kit was not so great. They gave me a
> treatise on stepper motor theory but no instructions on how to
assemble
> the board, no specs, nada.
> 2. The board was however silk screened and everything went
together
> smooth.
> 3 . The LED's don't light up (or maybe I just couldn't see them
in
> the daylight)
> Important: The driver is NOT a step/dir drive. Fortunately I
kept
> a demo copy of DeskNC which has a selection for PHASE DRIVE. I'm
not
> sure what that is but it works.
> There is only one Vcc on the board and right now I am running at
> 18VDC just by turning the voltage up until the motors worked right.
> I will post pictures later, next few days.
>
>
>
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