Implementng 4 Wire Bipolar Stepper (pm42l-048), Stepper motor circuit through ULN2003A

[atiprashant]

Hello everyone !!!

I am new to hardware and i have been assigned to run stepper motor through newly designed microcontroller (by TI) Launchpad(MSP430G2452) using ULN2003A as the driver circuit.

My motor specifications are in the link given

My motor datasheet

I made a driver circuit using ULN2003A but its getting overloaded everytime.

I also have not much idea about the motor configuration.

Talking about my code, I am using an approximate delay of 1 s for one step of the stepper cycle...

Here is the piece of code that I am using....

for(i=0;i<55000;i++){}
P1OUT = BIT3;
P1OUT |= BIT4;
P1OUT |= BIT5;

for (i=0;i<55000;i++){}
P1OUT |= BIT0;
P1OUT &= ~BIT4;

for(i=0;i<55000;i++){}
P1OUT &= ~BIT3;
P1OUT |= BIT4;


for(i=0;i<55000;i++){}
P1OUT |= BIT3;
P1OUT &= ~BIT5;

This is placed under an infinite loop...

Even the sequence of outputs given to the pins are same I think, but I dont know where the problem is.

One point that I observed was that ULN2003A was not working properly once the motor was loaded. Is it due to some overloading...??

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

[atiprashant]

They suggest me to use UDN2916 or LM293D, both based on H-bridge.

Please suggest what to use

[Abdullah M.A.]

Yes, you have to use LM298D because this is a bi-polar stepper motor not a
uni-polar stepper motor.
you can't use ULN2003 because it's just provide a GND, ULN2003 contains
a group of open collector transistors.

Abdulla

[athiban54]

i have the same stepper motor and a L298d.. am trying to interface it with my atmega 16 micro controller, bt i dont know how to inteface it and program it.... i searched web for nearly 2 days, i could nt find how... can any one help me...!?

[MikeGyver]

Why build a controller when you can buy something far superior for less?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1PCS-NEW-Single-Ax...#ht_8395wt_1085

unless it's a school assignment...

[blunt_man]

put a 1K resistor between a 12v supply and each wire going to your motor, when activating a phase drive it low by putting a high to the input of your darlington out of the controller.