- Thu Aug 01, 2013 9:43 am
#162178
I have a NEMA 17 Stepper Motor with four cables and an EasyDriver. I bought both of them off of sparkfun. The version of the EasyDriver I have is the one where the current adj is a white square. I have 15V powering the easydriver. Yesterday, I had my stepper motor moving according to the force of a load cell that I have that reads that force to an arduino uno in terms of voltage. My stepper motor stopped moving. I took a look at it and it is making the sounds that it needs to make, but the gears are not turning; therefore, the shaft is not turning. It just vibrates. I tried another stepper motor that I have and it did the same thing. I borrowed a different driver from a friend and both stepper motors work great. It must have something to do with the controller. What could have caused that, and how could I prevent this from happening in the future?
Other details:
-15V power supply is a AC to DC converter wall jack (like a cell phone charger)
-I have the power supply connected to a power strip and use the switch on the power strip to turn on/off power to driver.
-9V power jack is supplying my Arduino Uno.
-I had it running for about 2 hours before this happened.
Other details:
-15V power supply is a AC to DC converter wall jack (like a cell phone charger)
-I have the power supply connected to a power strip and use the switch on the power strip to turn on/off power to driver.
-9V power jack is supplying my Arduino Uno.
-I had it running for about 2 hours before this happened.