NEW PRODUCT – Small Reduction Stepper Motor – 5VDC 48-Step 1/64 Gearing
NEW PRODUCT – Small Reduction Stepper Motor – 5VDC 48-Step 1/64 Gearing. This is a great first stepper motor, good for small projects and experimenting with steppers. This uni-polar motor has a built in mounting plate with two mounting holes. There are only 48 step (7.5 degree) per revolution, and inside is a 1/64 reduction gear set. What this means is that there are really 48*64 steps per revolution = 3072 steps! The shaft is flattened so its easy to attach stuff to it with a set-screw. A perfect first stepper motor and works well with the Motor Shield for Arduino.
The gearing has a few side effects which are important to note. First, you cannot turn the stepper by hand (its geared down too far). It also means you shouldn’t use interleaved or micro-stepping to control or it will take forever to turn. Instead use single or double stepping. The torque is fairly high but its slower than un-geared steppers – we maxed out at about 20 RPM by over-driving it a bit with 9VDC.
To use with the Adafruit Motor Shield, connect red to ground (middle), orange and pink to one motor port (say M1) and blue and yellow to the other motor port (say M2). So in order, thats: orange – pink – red – blue – yellow. Then just use the example code that comes with the Adafruit Motor Shield library and set the constructor to AF_Stepper motor(2048, motornum) and the speed at 5 RPM by calling motor.setSpeed(5). Otherwise, you can also wire it up with some transistors and use the Arduino Stepper library
Unipolar stepper with 0.1″ spaced 5-pin cable connector
48 steps per revolution
1/64 geared down reduction
5V DC suggested operation
Weight: 37 g.
Dimensions: 28mm diameter, 20mm tall not including 9mm shaft with 5mm diameter
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