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Stepper Control Driver Pins Neg instead of Pos

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Hi, So in my past experience wiring steppers on previous projects I always used the +pos pins as the control pins and jumped all the negatives to ground. In this case you are using the negatives as the control pins. Any reason for that ?



   
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Chris Annin
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The drivers I was using in the earlier versions of the AR2 did not work with PNP or common cathode so the original architecture was setup for an open collector or common anode. I have tried to change as little as possible from version to version and left the wiring this way. The DM542T supports either.



   
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@chris-annin Cool ! thanks! Im working on some custom web based software with a simulator. Basically an updated interface and control software. It uses arduino firmatta and jhonny five ( javascript robotics library ) and my own custom inverse kinimatics logic. I have the software written and am just waiting on the arm parts to come in! My goal is to control the AR all with javascript 😉



   
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