Re: Bipolar Driver with Unipolar stepper motor

Hi Keith,

I was just re-reading some old posts and post Message 38922 seems to
describe it pretty well.

I am in the same boat as some posts lately. 2:1 into a 13 tpi
leadscrew and concerned about speed.

was too slow on my uni-polar drive so am upgrading to Gecko's.

and will be using some uni-polar motors and some bi-polars too.

Dave

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "Keith Sloan" <keith.sloan@u...> wrote:
> What is a half coil setup ?
>
> Please could you elaborate
>
> > Message: 24
> > Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:24:45 -0700
> > From: "Tim Goldstein" <timg@k...>
> > Subject: RE: Re: Why is my feedrate slow with stepper motor
>
> > You don't need to replace the motors to use a bi-polar drive.
Just use a
> > half coil setup with the bipolar drive.
>
> > Tim
> > [Denver, CO]
>
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