[sm11963]

I dont know if anyone else is having this problem but I cant for the life of me find 8 conductor cable/wire for my stepper motors. I have the 8 lead stepper motors (5718M-02E-03) and need to find wiring to connect them to the hobbycnc driver board. The colors are red, blue, green, black, red-white, blue-white, green-white and black-white.

I did find a red, green, blue, black and white stranded wires (sold separately) that I can get 100' of each for $28 plus shipping. Is that reasonable to buy that an go through the extra work??

Where do you get your stepper motor hookup wire???

[Crevice Reamer]

Hi SM. Welcome to the Zone!

Stepper motor wiring to the BOB is always only 4 wires. You end up doubling 4 of the 8 wires from the motor. So we all use 4 conductor wire, or twin twisted pair shielded cable with a drain wire.

If you are not going to use more than 3.5A per motor, there's a whole bunch of motor wire sources in this link:
http://crevicereamer.com/Page__57.html

And here's some basic CNC info that might be helpful to you:
http://crevicereamer.com/Page_2.html

CR.

[rowbare]

CreviceReamer has a list of places on his site: http://crevicereamer.com/Page__57.html

If you connecting them Bipolar Parallel, you only need 4 conductors, you can join the motor leads appropriately and connect them to the wire.

bob

You are fast CR...

[Crevice Reamer]

One of the links on my site has expired. Here's a similar one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Stepper-Motor-Wi...item45f0fe250c

CR.

[sm11963]

The driver board I am going to use is a unipolar driver only and needs 6 wires to operate so you are right I dont need 8 but I need 6 not 4 which is the bipolar version. But your links are awesome anyhow. Thanks for replying so quick.

Side note: Im using the Hobbycnc pro driver board so its all one unit BOB and drivers.

[sm11963]

It looks like I found some wire that will work for $40 including shipping you can get 50' of 6 conductor wire here (http://www.asapwire.com/product_p/90-7135-0050.htm)