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    How To Control Speed of Stepper Motor by Potentiometer

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    This document provides instructions for controlling the speed of a stepper motor using an Arduino, an A4988 driver IC, and a potentiometer. It includes an overview of how the A4988 IC can be used to control stepper motors in different microstepping modes. It also details the pinouts of the A4988 IC and provides code examples to run the stepper motor at a fixed speed and to vary the speed based on the potentiometer reading. Wiring diagrams are included to connect the components.

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    How To Control Speed of Stepper Motor by Potentiometer

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    This document provides instructions for controlling the speed of a stepper motor using an Arduino, an A4988 driver IC, and a potentiometer. It includes an overview of how the A4988 IC can be used to control stepper motors in different microstepping modes. It also details the pinouts of the A4988 IC and provides code examples to run the stepper motor at a fixed speed and to vary the speed based on the potentiometer reading. Wiring diagrams are included to connect the components.

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    This document provides instructions for controlling the speed of a stepper motor using an Arduino, an A4988 driver IC, and a potentiometer. It includes an overview of how the A4988 IC can be used to control stepper motors in different microstepping modes. It also details the pinouts of the A4988 IC and provides code examples to run the stepper motor at a fixed speed and to vary the speed based on the potentiometer reading. Wiring diagrams are included to connect the components.

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    This document provides instructions for controlling the speed of a stepper motor using an Arduino, an A4988 driver IC, and a potentiometer. It includes an overview of how the A4988 IC can be used to control stepper motors in different microstepping modes. It also details the pinouts of the A4988 IC and provides code examples to run the stepper motor at a fixed speed and to vary the speed based on the potentiometer reading. Wiring diagrams are included to connect the components.

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    How to control speed of Stepper motor

    by potentiometer + arduino + A4988


    Tutorial

    sandeep

     01/07/2018

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    Hello friends.

    In this tutorial we will learn how to run and control speed of Stepper motor using Arduino, A4988 driver IC
    and Potentiometer.

    You can watch the following video or you can continue to read this post for complete tutorial.
    OVERVIEW
    A4988 is a Microstepping driver IC to control bipolar stepper motors, A4988 Driver is so easy to use because
    it needs only two control pin from microcontoller to control steps and direction of stepper motor. we can
    configure A4988 IC for full step, half step, quarter step, eight step & sixteen steps,

    PIN DETAILS OF A4988 DRIVER IC

    A4988 DRIVER IC PIN DETAIL

    1. ENABLE :- Enable pin is used to enable and disable stepper motors, like in some applications if you
    don’t need to engage motors while in rest position means you don’t need holding torque, so we just
    disable steppers during this rest position and enable them again when it required, in this why motors
    will not draw current in holding position and and heating of motor avoids. it is not always compulsory
    to used this pin. Enable pin is low motors are enable, Enable pin is high motors are disable.
    2. MS1, MS2, MS3 :- This pins are used to configure Microstepping study below table to get idea how
    to configure required micostepping.

    A4988 Microstepping table


    3. RESET :- Turn off all the FET outputs till when reset pin is high all steps are ignored.
    4. SLEEP :- When set low minimize the power consumption and and A4988 went in sleep mode.
    5. STEP :- Step pin connected with digital pin of microcontroller to run stepper motor as per the
    numbers of step signals from microcontroller, speed of stepper motor depends upon the the frequency
    of step signal more the delay in step signal lower the RPM & vice versa. step signal delay is
    universally prepositional to the speed of stepper motor.
    6. DIR :- Direction pin set high or low to run stepper motor in either direction.
    7. V MOT :- Power supply for Motors (8-35V DC).
    8. GND :- System ground.
    9. 1A,1B,2A,2B :- Connection pin for motor connection.
    10. VDD :- Logic power supply (3V – 5.5V).
    11. GND :- System ground.

    Basic wiring drawing to run Stepper


    motor

    Following is the arduino code to run stepper motor one step in forward direction and one step in reverse
    direction.
    1 const int stepPin = 4;
    2 const int dirPin = 3;
    3 void setup() {
    4 // Sets the two pins as Outputs
    5 pinMode(stepPin,OUTPUT);
    6 pinMode(dirPin,OUTPUT);
    7 }
    8 void loop() {
    9 digitalWrite(dirPin,HIGH); // Enables the motor to move in a particular direction
    10 // Makes 200 pulses for making one full cycle rotation
    11 for(int x = 0; x < 200; x++) {
    12 digitalWrite(stepPin,HIGH);
    13 delayMicroseconds(500);
    14 digitalWrite(stepPin,LOW);
    15 delayMicroseconds(500);
    16 }
    17 delay(1000); // One second delay
    18
    19 digitalWrite(dirPin,LOW); //Changes the rotations direction
    20 // Makes 400 pulses for making two full cycle rotation
    21 for(int x = 0; x < 400; x++) {
    22 digitalWrite(stepPin,HIGH);
    23 delayMicroseconds(500);
    24 digitalWrite(stepPin,LOW);
    25 delayMicroseconds(500);
    26 }
    27 delay(1000);
    28 }

    Wiring drawing to control speed of


    Stepper motor with potentiometer
    Following is the code to control speed of stepper motor by using 10k ohm potentiometer

    1 int steppin = 4;
    2 int dirpin = 3;
    3 int stepdelay;
    4 void setup() {
    5 pinMode(steppin, OUTPUT);
    6 pinMode(dirpin, OUTPUT);
    7 digitalWrite(dirpin, HIGH); // direction pin either LOW or HIGH to move in either direction.
    8
    9 }
    10
    11 void loop() {
    12 int val = analogRead(A0);
    13 stepdelay = map(val,0,1023,1,1000);
    14 digitalWrite(steppin, HIGH);
    15 delayMicroseconds(stepdelay);
    16 digitalWrite(steppin, LOW);
    17 delayMicroseconds(stepdelay);
    18
    19 }

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