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Re: RAMS or Megatronics for stepper control (not for 3d printer)?

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These are basically the same thing as the A4988 or DRV8825's to drive, but yes they support more microsteps. Note that if you're after high speed, mirostepping is your enemy, as you'll only get a finite number of pulses out of your electronics to feed these devices, which sets a finite maximum speed you can spin the motors. You can of course change your stepping (via switches) so in that way at least you can experiment and see how you go.

You could hook the motors up in parallel (it's how most RepRaps work on their Z axis) and it should work fine. If you're using a large enough supply, you could hook them up in a parallel/series combo as well, but that's getting a bit complicated (eg 2 motors in series, then the 2 series pairs in parallel).

Note that at a guess, if you go with an all-parallel motor setup you'll have to set the current limit to about 1.6A (4 motors x 0.4A), but don't take that as granted, as I'm not sure if that would be the Peak value or the RMS value.

As with anything like this though, I would suggest you check the motors you get for shorts on any of the coils BEFORE hooking them up. I'd also try one motor first, then 2, 3, 4 (in order) to see if there are any issues. You may find that you can only run 2 off each driver, in which case you would need 2 drivers. I've seen lots of drivers destroyed by motors that come from places with poor quality control or that are damaged in shipping (dropping a motor on its shaft can damage the electrical contacts inside, leading to a short).

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