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Mark_H
MemberThat wire color tip was a good one. I haven’t had much time with steppers myself but have went to school for electronics, even though it has been awhile since I brushed it off.
I haven’t posted the method anywhere yet, it did involve the ohm meter and spreadsheet mapping out the color pairs. I thought I might write up a tutorial or something so if you took a 6 wire motor and without knowing anything about it you could find out which one’s were paired. The fun part was how the data revealed that info. I think it would help others with less experience in the area, to be able sort out an unknown 6 wire stepper without relying on the wire colors conforming to any standard, should they run into that or just for the sake of learning.
MemberThanks for the response and I sure this will help others as well. I went searching through the molex product line trying to match the male connector and let me tell you that is enough to get lost for days with all the parts molex has.
While I put searching for matching connectors aside for a bit. I went on to figure out my stepper motor coils. I came up with a slight different or maybe a bit more drawn out way to identify unknown coil pairs for a 6 wire unipolar stepper motors. The results were kind of interesting( more for someone with a background in electronics) but can be used by anyone who can check resistance, record the info, follow my steps for identifying the coils. For those who like to dabble in basic ohm’s law theory the data sort of shows a math puzzle but when ohm’s law is applied to that data, it suddenly makes sense. Not sure if anyone would be interested in seeing it but it helped me figure out what I had on those unknown unipolar motors.
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