driver microstepping settings

[lseguine]

Hello again Dave,
just full of questions ;D

i have kl 5056D drivers, on the driver there is a switch setting that allow for all kinds of micro setting. mach3 has a setting for setting steps/units.

one of the settings on the driver is such i could get 4000 steps per inch. to me that would would work out to 0.001" per step on a 200 turns per inch ball screw.

if this true, i'm not sure how things interact with mach3 settings?

larry

[DaveCVI]

Hi,
I was out of town for the holiday weekend, so a bit of a delay in responding...

It's been a while since I walked thru the calcs for a machine drive line. The attached may be of help (or it may only be confusing) - it is a small spread sheet I dug up that I used to calculate the initial settings for mach for a stepper driven machine.

Blue numbers are inputs, back are calculated values. You an look at the cells to get the formulas.

Dave

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