Sunday, November 18, 2007

stepper motor basics

A stepper motor is a brushless, synchronous electric motor that can divide a full rotation into a large number of steps, for example, 200 steps. When commutated electronically, the motor's position can be controlled precisely, without any feedback mechanism (see open loop control)

Some web resources on Stepper Motors:

Stepper motor Basics
Control of Stepping Motors - A Tutorial
A Wiki article on Stepper motors
Nice Animation of a stepping Motor : A German webpage.Please use the slider labelled as continuous to vary speed and run the animation.The stepping modes can also be changed.The type of winding can be selected from the top left corner of the animation

1 comment:

Chris Ballard said...

There are so many uses for stepper motors that it's really just a matter of finding the most fun one!