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laurb9 / StepperDriver

Arduino library for A4988, DRV8825, DRV8834, DRV8880 and generic two-pin (DIR/STEP) stepper motor drivers
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What should be set for the "microstep" value? #117

Closed kazumasa-kusaba closed 1 year ago

kazumasa-kusaba commented 1 year ago

Thank you for developing this useful library. I have 2 questions about the value of "microsteps".

What should be set for the "microsteps" value?

I'm using A4988. What should I set to the following methods?

https://github.com/laurb9/StepperDriver/blob/be6a215849144099273e890cca75dbf4ef233787/src/A4988.cpp#L44

https://github.com/laurb9/StepperDriver/blob/be6a215849144099273e890cca75dbf4ef233787/src/A4988.cpp#L61

The value should be set directly to 1 or 2 or 4 or 8 or 16?

And do I need to call "setMicrostep" method if I want to change microstep?
It looks like all the ms pins are set HIGH in the begin method.
https://github.com/laurb9/StepperDriver/blob/be6a215849144099273e890cca75dbf4ef233787/src/A4988.cpp#L51

kazumasa-kusaba commented 1 year ago

And do I need to call "setMicrostep" method if I want to change microstep? It looks like all the ms pins are set HIGH in the begin method.

I'm sorry, the above question is my misunderstanding...

A4988::setMicrostep(short microsteps) method will be called in BasicStepperDriver::begin(float rpm, short microsteps) method and all the ms pins will be set to the appropriate values.

https://github.com/laurb9/StepperDriver/blob/be6a215849144099273e890cca75dbf4ef233787/src/BasicStepperDriver.cpp#L54

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