Driver Motor Encoder and wiring

[lormal]

Hi,
I have this motor: maxon motor 316359 swiss made

It have two wire red and black to supply the voltage and the other connector is the encoder.
It is possible to control it with DUET 3mini 5+?
What type of driver and wiring should i do?

Thanks

[droftarts]

@lormal It looks like it is at least a DC motor, possibly brushless. The drivers on Duet boards are for stepper motors, so you can't connect it directly to them. You can probably get it to spin (see https://docs.duet3d.com/User_manual/Connecting_hardware/Motors_servos#connecting-dc-motors) but I can't find any specification information for it, so be careful that it doesn't draw too much current when connecting it to I/O headers. Even if you knew the encoder pin out, there is no way to control the position using the encoder. It may be possible to use an external driver board so it works like a servo motor, but as I can't find any specification on the motor, I can't really advise on what would be compatible.

Ian

[lormal]

@droftarts Thanks for your reply. It is a dc motor of a stratasys machine but i can't find a external driver to connect and control this DC motor. If it is possibile to control it is better but if i cantieri i find another solution.

[sebkritikel]

@lormal Check out these threads - they converted some Stratasys machines over to Duet 2 Wifi +Duex. Drove the extruder servo with a Geckodrive G320X servo motor controller.

https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/12647/another-stratasys-uprint-retrofit/42
https://hackaday.io/project/186419-dueprint

May be of some help. On my project list to do one of these days...

[lormal]

@sebkritikel Thanks, now i try do some test, but i find useful information!

[sebkritikel]

@lormal Hope you get a chance to see this - I was able to control likely the same motors using the G320x method. Hopefully if you see it, it is some help!
https://forum.duet3d.com/topic/31642/duet-2-wifi-and-geckodrive-g320x-on-stepper-channels-10-and-11/10