Greetings, may I ask your help and experience?
I have designed and built a test board that uses TB6560AHQ to drive 2 phase, 8 wire superior electric slo-syn stepper motors with supply voltages of 24VDC and 5VDC for the logic. (Photos of a fried one attached)
There is a problem with the board. When connected to the motor via series (or parallel, it doesn't make any difference whatsoever, but gives less torque) connection and driven, the motor moves inconsistently, skiping steps, changing direction without input and making a lot of noise. When I looked at the output with osciloscope, there were a lot of uneccessary spikes and plunges, generated by the chip that (I think) forced the motor to behave like that. Playing with the settings of torque, decay or driving mode improved the situation a bit, but the problem still existed.
As I have read more and more about this particular IC on forums, it became clear, that I have made a mistake by underestimating it's sensitivity to noise and inductive resistance, so I used wirewound ceramic resistors for the "sensing" resistors. Also, the circuit may have poor mass and inductivity because of poorly designed PCB layout.
So, here are the questions:
1. Can all those problems be caused by the inductivity of resistors and PCB layout?
2. If yes, can I use a few parallel resistors instead of one for the "sensing" resistors? (0.5Ohm non-inductive resistors are hard to find, you know )
3. I have seen people using low ESR capacitors for the "filtration" of motor side power supply. May that help?
Thanks,
Mykolas J.
P.S. My english isn't top-noch, hope you'll be able to understand everything clearly enough