BLUE - YELLOW = 2.7 OHMS
BLUE - RED = 3.9 "
BLUE - ORANGE = 3.9 "
BLUE - BLACK = 2.7 "
YELLOW - RED = 4.0 "
YELLOW - BLACK = 4.0 "
YELLOW - ORANGE = 2.6 "
ORANGE - BLACK = 3.9 "
ORANGE - RED = 2.7 "
RED - BLACK = 2.6 "
Have a spare TB6600 and wondered if I can utilise it ?
If so what would be the correct combination of pairs ?
A five wire stepping motor is normally what you get with a uni polar stepping motor where as a bipolar motor has 4 or 6 wires. The ones with 6 wires have center tapped coils so you can wire it up as a uni polar motor if you want.
I would have expected to see a reading with one colour reading a minimum resistance to all four other colours. Any higher resistances would indicate a current path through two coils, but it doesn't seem that is the case.
Maybe you have two coils with center taps joined together.
Well only if it is a bipolar stepping motor.
There is no way of telling even if you know the type of coil, but if it dosn't work then simply reverse one of those coils.
Without doing a full teardown which I has hoped to avoid (urrgh) I may not know if it is tapped.
Think I may have to get a better meter out and check again.
Now to try remember the safe place I hid the meter away from the wife !
Yep she knows some basics and I regret teaching her LOL
I once had a CNC milling machine with 5-phase stepper motors. I could, perhaps research the name. Was originally for use as a teaching help in schools.
The reason for 5 phases is the smoothness of motion. Avoided the stepped tooling marks while milling metal.
The auction site still has all the info. IT was an Enco F1 CNC machine. Rather old!
I'd say you have a 5 wire motor with coil resistance of about 3.3 Ohms.
let's say that one coil has BLUE and YELLOW wires, you would have 3.3 Ohms in parallel with 4 * 3.3 = 13.2 Ohms.
1 / ((1 / 3.3) + (1 /13.2)) = 2.64 Ohms.
If you measured from BLUE to RED (6.6 Ohms in parallel with 9.9 Ohms).
1 / ((1 / 6.6) + (1 / 9.9)) = 3.96 Ohms.
There are simply too many variations of this size and make of stepper to be sure of anything.
Only paid $15 for it so not a great loss if I cannot use it.
Just didn't want to pay out for a 5 wire driver unless I had to as they are so much more expensive.
Set myself up a Sanyo account so will see if they still have any tech details for this.
Don't have a specific project in mind but I could fit it as a garage door opener motor
