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help needed to control stepper motor with built in drivers

I need a program to control my stepper motor. Can you please let me know if you can help me.
I haven't used LabView before. The data card  I am using is NI 9215. and using the following stepper motor:

http://www.sanyo-denki.com/sanmotion_db.aspx

 

 I need to control the steps (the motor has micro-step function) and the direction of the motor. Help required urgently.

 

 

Thanks a lot in advance 

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Urgent or not, if you are using the USB-9215, you have big problems since the 9215 does not have any outputs that you can use for controlling the stepper.

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What Do I need to use? How do I go about it ?

 

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Have you read the product sheet? You can control it with pulses, general I/O, or RS-485. For the first two, a device with a counter output or hardware timed digital I/O might work. The RS-485 requires either a RS-232->RS-485 converter or direct RS-485 device for the pc.

 

Click on the Products & Services link at the top of the page and you can search for hardware your lab may have. If you need to buy something, I suspect the RS-485 route would be the cheapest. NI's costs $149 but you can probably find something for much less.

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What if I use NI 9263 module with it. Will that work?
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uh... no

 

 

As Dennis plainly stated, you need a digital pulse train output and/or digital IO  or RS-485

 

Neither the USB 9215 nor the USB 9263 have these feeatures

 

 

Easiest method will probably be using RS-485 to send commands to the built-in motor driver.

 

 

Call NI and talk to an application engineer for help if you don't understand the data sheets

 

Tel: (888) 280-7645 

 


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What if I amonly looking for control using command pulses? As that option gives me 16 types of resolution for my step angle selection.

 

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Your ability to control the motor with RS485 is almost certainly equal to using pulses. Read the manual.

 

If you insist on using pulses, then find a board with a counter output or digital output. In theory, you can also use an analog output if you are able to rewrite the existing code examples that use a counter/digital I/O. If you are up to that task, go for it.

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