Stepper controller

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oriental stepper PH268M-E1.5 5.4 V 1.5A 8 leads. Can you recommend a unit that can controller this with a simple laptop GUI? Thanks

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Hi @thenthorne and welcome to our forum.

Since this motor has 8 wires, it can act as unipolar or bipolar.

If you want to use simple GUI to control it, you could use some of Pololu TIC USB stepper controllers:

For example this one:

USB Multi-Interface Stepper Motor Controller makes basic control of a stepper motor easy, with quick configuration over USB using free software. You can see how it works here:

I hope this helps. Feel free to ask anything else.

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hi Igor: Thanks so much for the recommendation. I am waiting for this to get restocked so I can buy one. The description says it comes with:
“male headers and terminal blocks are included but not soldered” does this mean there is a terminal block that slides onto the 10 pins so I can easily connect the stepper wire to the board?
thanks
Tim

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Hi @thenthorne ,

This means you will get these 10 male headers in a separate bag, not soldered. You can solder these and then connect your stepper motor using female connectors.

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Would it be possible to find a phoenix connector like this to directly solder to the board?

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Can you upload this image again? I cannot open it.

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here it is again and a link if the image still doesn’t work. so, not this one exactly but an 8 pin one that would fit the board:
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link: https://www.mouser.ca/ProductDetail/Phoenix-Contact/1725672?qs=Ul7CXFMnlWXX93F9bOV2pQ%3D%3D&mgh=1&utm_id=17633666059&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwxeyxBhC7ARIsAC7dS3-lzrFFrGYnhIoVX1nLGAqj-i1aNIXA0mxaSYYViW4jqnn_DJ_cIMIaAuEiEALw_wcB

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I see it now.

You will already get this connector on the motor part:
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So on this side where you need to connect your motor, you already have this terminal block.

On the other side, you have male header pins where you can connect your microcontroller for example.

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hi again - sorry I may be missing something here. The motor has 8 leads (4 windings not 2 as you show). I want to connect the motor to this controller and use the software on the computer to control the motor thru the usb port. The connector only has 6 sockets with 4 for the coils.

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Yes, but you still connect your 8 wires stepper motor to this controller.

Here you can see explanation how 8 wires stepper can be connected, in series or parallel:

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ok - thanks - that will work for me

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Great :slight_smile: Have a nice day :slight_smile: