I’m worried about getting this wrong

[A Former User]

@rushmere3d I’m reading the manual there are some warning to be aware of, however.

[Rushmere3D]

@corlissmedia such as?

[A Former User]

@rushmere3d

[Rushmere3D]

@corlissmedia OK, My answer was based on you seeming to know which wires made up the phase's.

[A Former User]

@rushmere3d I know which wires go to each phase, but not which phase is which. I’d like to avoid getting the motors backwards. I don’t want to have to redo the connects, and I don’t want the wiring to be backwards.

[sebkritikel]

@corlissmedia as @Rushmere3D said, so long as you have identified the pairs of the stepper motor, you'll be fine. If the motor runs backwards, all you need to do is reverse the direction in RRF.

[A Former User]

@sebkritikel is there a known protocol that would suggest which coil is the A coil, and which coil is the B coil?

[Rushmere3D]

@corlissmedia Probably only the stepper motor datasheet. It really doesn't matter, it's only changing 1 digit in the config.g if the stepper goes the wrong way.

[droftarts]

@corlissmedia it doesn’t matter which way round you connect each phase, so long as you have identified which two wires are a phase. Then connect the two wires for one phase of the stepper motor to the two pins at one end of the connector, and the two wires for the other phase to the two pins at the other end. Everything else is configured in config.g.

Ian

[A Former User]

@droftarts thanks, Ian, I’m starting to understand that. Given the numbering convention (1 to 6, left to right), and what I know about the wire colors, we’ll, maybe the left phase is the A phase.

[dc42]

@corlissmedia it's as @droftarts says. Swapping A and B phases over, or swapping a + for a - connection merely reverses the motor direction, and you can compensate for that in the M569 commands in config.g.

[A Former User]

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