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Bipolar stepper motor: how to change direction

Hi!
I want to drive a hybrid bipolar stepper motor using a motor driver, a usb-daqpad 6016 and labview 2012 software as the user-interface. The motor driver that I use has 3 pins; enable, direction and pulse. My problem is I'm not sure how can I program the labview for clockwise (CW) and counterclockwise (CCW) direction. I can use the counter to send the pulses to the motor driver Pulse pin and probably wire the digital output to Enable pin to on and off the motor. But how about changing the motor direction; CW and CCW. Please advice me on this matter. Thank you.
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Hi Annj,

 

Just to ask, can you provide the user manual for the motor driver used to drive the stepper motor? Have you tried moving the stepper motor by at least either CW or CCW? 

 

If so, can you provide your code for me to look into?

 

Warmest regards,

Lennard.C

Learning new things everyday...
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If your direction pin is high when you send pulses, it moves in one direction.  When the direction pin is low when you send pulses, it moves in the other direction.

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