Re: gecko wiring help

Hi Matt,

Glad to hear you've got it going! Where were you getting +5 from
before?

Yeah, you should check out Vector CAD/CAM. The demo is good. Go
through all the exercises, and I think you'll do just fine!

Again, Congratulations!

Alan KM6VV
(whew!)

pkranger63 wrote:

>
> Woohoo got the thing working. I tried Tims idea of running my 5v off
> one of my drive power supply cables (not the 12v) and vrrooomm the
> motor was working. Very big relief. Just gotta mount them on the
> mill and and pick out a cad/cam program, I've been leaning towards
> vector based on the great comments about the program and the demo
> seems too "agree" with me. Thanks for all the help. More questions
> to follow I am sure though!
>
> Matt
>
> -- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., Alan Marconett KM6VV <KM6VV@a...> wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > Reversing one coil? How can that help? The current through the
> coil
> > gets reversed anyway by the H-bridge. It would just change the
> > direction of rotation, because the sequence of excitation to the
> > windings would essentially be different.
> >
> > Alan KM6VV