The [Denki Otaku] YouTube channel took a look recently at some stepper motors, or ‘stepping motors’ as they’re called in Japanese. Using a 2-phase stepper motor as an example, the stepper motor is ...

Stepper motors are brushless synchronous electric motors powered by direct current that rotate in steps, keeping the rotor stationary under a specific power supply. A well-defined sequence of PWM ...

Stepper motors divide a full rotation into hundreds of discrete steps, which makes them ideal to precisely control movements, be it in cars, robots, 3D printers or CNC machines. Most stepper motors ...

Monolithic power ICs that are physically small, inexpensive, practical, and programmable can replace the bulkier, less flexible and more expensive boards and boxes that provide microstepping ...

Innovations improving smoothness of motion, miniaturizing designs, and networking are still moving microstepping technology ahead 25 years after it provided a revolutionary solution for position ...

If an engineer using a full-step, 5-phase motion system wants to improve performance without a complete redesign, then switching to a 5-phase system with microstepping capability may do the trick.

The A3979 is a complete microstepping motor driver with built-in translator, designed as a pin-compatible replacement for the successful A3977, with enhanced microstepping (1/16 step) precision. It is ...

The graph shows that at 16 microsteps/full step, the incremental torque for one microstep is less than 10% of the full-step holding torque. The lure of microstepping a two-phase stepper motor is ...

The A3979 microstepping motor driver operates bipolar stepper motors in full, half, quarter, and sixteenth-step modes, with output drive capability of 35 V and ±2.5 A. It is a drop-in replacement for ...

Stepper motors are vital in precision applications where there is a need for smooth movement and high-resolution positioning. Recognizing the differences between fullstepping, halfstepping, and ...

Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. introduces a new motor driver IC designed to drive one winding of a bipolar stepper motor in a microstepping mode. Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. introduces a new motor driver ...