Side Note on Bipolar Stepper Motors with Eight Wires...

As some of you know, I am using a set of three Bipolar Stepper Motors to run some source Ben told me about currently called beagleg.

I have two of the three motors with each of them having eight wires. They can either be Unipolar or Bipolar. I am not exactly sure how they accumulated the data to make a Uni/Bi motor but it exists…

So, from what I can tell thus far:

  1. For the Bipolar configurations of the eight wires, I would only use four of the eight wires.
  2. I have been using all eight wires for the configuration to the drivers.
  3. No smoking from the drivers nor were there any insight from the mfg. of the motors…

Off to test again!

Seth

yeppers, four wires.