Stepper Speed – Using quad stepper sketch

Hello there!

I am currently using the Quad Stepper Motor Stream component from Firefly in conjunction with the quad stepper sketch on the Arduino Mega 2560 board. I have got all 4 motors working independently and responding to the inputs I am sending.

However, the motors are relatively slow and even when I increase the speed on the slider, it hardly changes. I was wondering if there is anything that can be changed in the sketch, or in the AccelStepper library sketches that can allow the motors to go faster?

I am currently using the Quadstep Driver from Sparkfun, with a 12V power source, and using these Stepper motors – www.technobotsonline.com/…/200-steps-rev-bi-polar.html

Or if it is a problem of power, or type of motor, could anyone please indicate what options would result in faster speeds?

Thanks in advance for any help! Will be much appreciated )

Andre

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Landon Vowels on March 5, 2018 at 9:13am

A bit dated, but also working with the Quad Stepper Motor Stream from Firefly. Any results with editing the settings? I'm trying to enter different speeds, etc.

Permalink Reply by Landon Vowels on March 8, 2018 at 11:48am

Update:

I think the max speed is either 3200 (which is max for acceleration) or around 5000-10000.

Either way, I was able to see some variation when changing the input, so I imagine the problem above was caused by hardware (connection through drivers, slow motors...)

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