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Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (Tomek) — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:27:57 +0000

Inductance inside the motor is probably much more relevant. It's an inductor wound around an iron core, rather than the small industance of unwound wire.

Proportional to length of wire * and wire thickness.

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (ztoone) — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 09:06:08 +0000

Length of the wire is proportional to inductance. As you increase the length, the inductance will increase automatically.

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (Staffordknot) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:48:46 +0000

The feed wire to my steppers has awg 24 printed on them dunno what the stepper has as its all taped up.

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (nlancaster) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 01:09:26 +0000

thanks for the tips.

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (elmoret) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:46:48 +0000

The change in inductance is probably negligible, it's barely calculable with double precision:

http://www.eeweb.com/toolbox/parallel-wire-inductance

Maybe you meant resistance? Still negligible.

AWG 25 doesn't have 2x the capacity or crossectional area of AWG26. It has about 1.3x of both.

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (Tomek) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 00:32:46 +0000

When you make the wires longer you will marginally increase the inductance. I have no idea if this will matter, but inductance limits how much current you can get into the stepper motor *if you're stepping the motor very quickly.*

If you plan on doubling the length of the wire, and are concerned about increased inductance, you should double the cross section of the wire. So use something like AWG25. But, solidoodle uses rather low quality wires on the rest of the wiring harness, so if the steppers are no different, simply replacing them with higher quality AWG26 might be enough.

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (nlancaster) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:25:02 +0000

sweet thanks adrian.

Know of any issues with making the wires longer?

Re: Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (adrian) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:38:25 +0000

The datasheet for the motors is AWG26, and I'm pretty sure thats whats also used on the connector side where extensions are used.

http://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PDT/S … 328001.pdf

Wire Gauge used on steppers.

null@example.com (nlancaster) — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 07:26:19 +0000

Anyone know what the wire gauge used on the solidoodle is? I am thinking of moving my control board away from the printer when I enclose it and may need to extend the wires on the motors. I am not worried about the wiring for the switches, lights, and fans, and for the heated parts I will be stepping up to a higher gauge anyway.