stepper motor control

[Cloun]

Dear Stas,

I have a stepper motor controlled by the small brother of your system the TMC223 instead of TMC246/428. This spepper controller is connected to my PC via the I2C-USB-interface instead of RS232. But this should be the same like your testes system because TMC223 is also controlled by the Trinamic Motion Control Language and the I2C-USB-interface is also providing a COM-port on my computere like RS232 is doing it. There are also a version of your used Trinamic PANDrive with I2C-port instead an RS232-port.

Now: How can I tell Helicon Remote there is a stepper motor on a certain COM-port? The software is only able to control the DSLR (Canon 1000D). There is not appearing any menu for stepper motors.

Best wishes, Hans

[Stas Yatsenko]

Hans,

We are looking for motor in USB devices. You will need a USB-COM convertion cable to make the program work. Make sure that this converter is based on FTDI chip (90% of all converters). Please let us know about your progress.

[Cloun]

Dear Stas,

the stepper controler is connected to the computer by an USB-cabel (!) but Windows is automaticly providing this USB-Connection as a Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge (COMx).

I use this stepper controler and adapter:

http://www.elv.de/output/controller.asp ... ail2=30930

and

http://www.elv.de/output/controller.asp ... ail2=24012

Best wishes, Hans

[Stas Yatsenko]

Thanks for this link. We would like to order this set to make experiments. It looks like the USB adapter is different so we need to change our program a bit. What should we order to have working kit? Motor, connector, power supply?