Featherwing Motorshield disable steppers

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Featherwing Motorshield disable steppers

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I am using an ESP32 Feather together with the feathewring motor shield. I control two nema17 steppers with it.
I need to individually disable the steppers so that they can freewheel and are not blocked.
i tried several possible functions of different libraries but without success.
is there a i2c command for the pca9685 chip to power off the stepper coils?
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joa

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Re: Featherwing Motorshield disable steppers

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Call the "release()" function on your stepper object.

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