Stepper motor, counting steps, maximum?

Posted by david tinapple at April 21. 2008

In a rush, I emailed this question in and got a fast response. I needed to know what the stepper maximum count is. Turns out it is 4294967296, which seems like plenty to me!

Anybody have experience with using steppers via max/msp with this board?

cheers,
-D

The answer was:

The only limit is the number of values a 32-bit int can hold on the board, which is 2^32 or 4294967296.

In the future, please consider posting questions to our forum, so everybody can benefit and contribute - www.makingthings.com/forum. Thanks.

Liam / MakingThings

The original question sent was:

Somewhat urgent last minute question. I need to control two steppers from max/msp on a mac. I see the demo max patch, very nice, but i wonder how many steps can it count, is there a limit? Many thanks... -D

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