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Stepper motor wiring

Postby henry.best » Sun May 06, 2012 3:30 pm

I've recovered a stepper motor from an old scanner. There are 6 wires coming from it: White, Blue, Red, Yellow and 2 Brown.
It's a Teco type 4H4018S0106 marked 12V, 0.2A, 1.8Deg. The Teco site shows some 6 wire steppers, but none of them have those colour wires and there's no archival records to look up.
How do I connect it to a motor shield and get the neccessary phase shifts?
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Re: Stepper motor wiring

Postby adafruit_support_bill » Mon May 07, 2012 4:49 am

There is no real standard for wire colors. But it is not hard to figure it out with a multimeter. There is a link on reverse-engineering stepper pinouts here:
http://www.ladyada.net/make/mshield/resources.html
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Re: Stepper motor wiring

Postby henry.best » Tue May 08, 2012 9:22 pm

Thanks for the link. It was very helpful. :D
Please note that the http://www.makingthings.com link appears to be broken :(
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