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Hi Guys,
Love the comments, Patience should be her name, and to the other replies, yes, it is a long winded way to do it, but look at all the thinking I had to do in the shed by myself, alone with...

My wife asked me to fix her cutting board which had bowed due to her using one side only. The other side remained sealed. (bought board)
So me being me, I decided to maker her a new one.
Then I...

Hi Tony,
Look into pulse width modulation for DC motors.
If you use variable voltage to change the speed, you might for example hve 2V to run your low speed. This how ever has no poser for low...

Gday Tony,

The problem that you are having is inertia in the motor rotor.
You are increasing the frequency to tell the stepper to rotate faster, but the motors rotor inertia is too much and the...

Hi Tony,
Sounds like we're brothers, I'm called grumpy old man by pretty much everyone.
The offer on the PM to help still stands by the way.
I was 30yrs in electronics.

Hi IMR700x,
Don't ask him that for christ sake, check the other posts for the answer.

I can fix your generator if you want

Try this tony
This uses all the stuff you have already.
I posted this yesterday, but it never came up for some reason. Never mind, here it is.
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Hi Sacca51,
I really should apologize to people on this forum that I've upset with my comments they are all only trying to help.
I've had a talk to one of the other members Mr Pensmore, and he...

Sacc51

Here, from the info you've given, this is all I can come up with. Bit rough I know, well al lot rough actually.
Note: This will only do one axis of your lathe, all of it needs to be...

HI Sacc51,

You are right, steppers do have huge torque down at low speed, but please understand this, Chris has pointed out that if you just want the lathe to transverse from right to left (or...

Hi Sacca51,
Got a good full photo of the module now, here's what it all means.

First chart....

Hi Sacca51

See post #40
I described all of that yesterday

The one output of the 555 timer board would go to the PUL+ input. THe PUL- input will be connected to 0V (the GND on the driver board....

Hi Sacc51,
Seems to me that there's a lot of people leading you up the garden path here. You ask why this setup is not working and then they start talking about seat motors, I can't see the...