Course - Electric Machines 5: Stepper motors

Includes:

• Experiment card with 2-phase stepper motor, 200 steps per revolution and Incremental disc

• Driver circuit with 6 control inputs and power amplifier, integrated current regulation, optional switching to resistor current limiting

• Overload and status display via LEDs

• Labsoft browser and course software

 

Course contents:

• Introduction to customary applications of stepper motors

• Introduction to the design and function of stepper motors: Permanent-magnet stepper motors, reluctance and hybrid stepper motors

• Identifying the advantages and disadvantages of various stepper motors

• Introduction to the various principles for controlling stepper motors (unipolar und bipolar)

• Introduction to full-step and half-step operating modes

• Experimental determination of step angle, maximum operating frequency and maximum start frequency

• Investigation by measurement of control signals in half-step and full-step mode

• Analysis of control signals when rotation is reversed

• Introduction to various methods of current regulation for stepper motors

• Experimental determination of the current regulation in use on the basis of control signals

• Writing a program for positioning the stepper motor using relative or absolute positioning

• Course duration: 3.5 h approx.

 

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