{"id":4231,"date":"2018-06-14T17:17:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T00:17:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"4231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/4231","title":{"rendered":"How do you wire a stepper motor to the DCU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stepper motors are great for projects and can easily be used with an Arduino and our <a href=\"\/product\/digital-control-unit\/\">Digital Control Unit<\/a> (<nobr>DCU-BTD<\/nobr>). If you have a stepper motor and want to use it with the DCU, first you need to figure out how to wire it. There are two basic types of small, permanent-magnet stepper motors used for projects. You can identify them by the number of wires. Bipolar stepper motors will have only 4 wires. If a stepper motor has more than 4 wires, it is probably a unipolar step motor. <\/p>\n<p>The document below walks you through how to identify the wires on either type of stepper motor and connect it to the Digital Control Unit (DCU).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.vernier.com\/til\/4231\/how-to-wire-a-stepper-motor.docx\">http:\/\/www2.vernier.com\/til\/4231\/how-to-wire-a-stepper-motor.docx<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stepper motors are great for projects and can easily be used with an Arduino and our . If you have a stepper motor and want&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9585,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3084,505,507,7088,7087],"class_list":["post-4231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-arduino","tag-dcu","tag-digital-control-unit","tag-step-motor","tag-stepper"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vernier.com\/til\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}