I've noticed that my stepper motor gets very hot if its on for long, I am using it feed my fish using a simple 24 hour (86400000 millisecond) delay.
I think a solution might be to have the arduino switch on a relay which power up thestepper driver before the signal is sent to the stepper. Will this work?
I think a solution might be to have the arduino switch on a relay which power up thestepper driver before the signal is sent to the stepper. Will this work?
As long as leaving the stepper unpowered doesn't cause it to move, yes.
Doesn't the stepper driver have an enable-pin you can toggle?
// Per.