Re: shielding for steppers

Hi,

Thanks to all who responded. You guys are great!!!

Now if we are connecting the wires to connectors meant for crimping
tools, (and also for connecting to drivers, DB25, switches, etc.) and
one doesn't have a crimping tool, is using the poor man's plier just
as effective? And is there any harm soldering the wire to the
connector (meant for crimping) as well?

Thanks

Peter

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., frenner@c... wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You have great replies but one thing to add: be sure to ground the
> shield at one end only. A "shield" grounded at both ends creates
> ground loops.
>
> Chopper drives are horrible EMI noise generators and can definitely
> cause problems with nearby instrumentation. I once had to treat the
> load as a pseudo-ballistic object and turn off the drives during a
> video frame-grab, simply because I couldn't keep the EMI bottled up
> with shielding.
>
> Fred R.