Re: shielding for steppers

Peter,

Do not use pliers! You will get a very poor, intermittent connection.
By all means solder the wires to the pins if you don't have a
crimping tool.

Mariss

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., cncnut@s... wrote:
> 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.