[Spiral_72]

Something bad happened.... something I have learned a valuable lesson from:

I'm running some 6-wire steppers, 2-phase. Well, the cable and terminal board inside the stepper was ummmmm, accidently detached. Yea, we’ll leave it at that.

I pulled the back off the stepper, fished the tiny copper wires back out and soldered a wire on to each one. There’s eight wires. I checked my other steppers and it looks like there are eight wires, for four coils. The coils are paired by joining one wire from each. I believe this is referred to as center tapped, but regardless I should have six wires coming out.

I run through the eight wires with my ohm meter and paired them off. Now I have four pairs of wires, one for each coil.

I used a battery on each pair to get all the correct polarities….. All running clockwise.

Inside the stepper, there are eight poles or coil pairs. I was able to determine which pole or coil pair went to which wires with an ohmmeter.

I tried various combinations of wiring to my controller, but of course never found the right one.


Can anyone help? PLEASE?
Look at the diagram I made. I tried to use the step sequence to figure it out, but it’s not working for me. Can anyone tell me which of the numbered poles or coils should be paired???