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Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Stepper motor connection

Posted by cnc sales
on 2013-02-01 09:19:25 UTC
So this is anecdotal real world proof that in some cases it can work ;)


> I have a lot of respect for Mariss and Gecko drives are great, but I
> have 3 Reprap printers running micro-stepping
> drives and they all have dual steppers on the Z axis run by a single
> Pololu bipolar driver. None have ever lost steps.
> These are small NEMA 17 motors and a 2 amp driver.
> OTOH, when I built my cnc router from scratch, I followed conventional
> wisdom and used two drivers for the two NEMA 23 motors on the X axis.
> They are slaved together in Mach 3. This also works very well.
>



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