High quality microstepping drives
SOLD OUT - I'll leave this page here for those that bought them.
I have for sale a number of IM483 microstepping drives made by Intelligent Motion Systems, the drives are almost new and have had less than 3 months use at very low currents.
The drives are a really tidy little package with screw terminals and are rated for 3A continous which makes them ideal for routers and smaller mills or lathes. The inputs are opto-isolated and the drives are protected against short circuit and over temperature. The other main thing is the microstepping capability, there are 14 different microstepping possibilities, these go right the way down to 256 microsteps per full step. For a 200 step stepper motor that is 0.007degrees per microstep, this can help provide amazing resolution and awesomely smooth motion. As you can see the casing of the drive also acts as a heat sink, the drives can be used without further heat sinking for lower current applications of bolted to a heat sink plate.
You can read about these drives here: IM483 description
Read more complete specifications here: IM483 Specification
Or download the complete manual: IM483 datasheet
Here are some of the more relavant details:
| Max input current: | 3A continuous, 4A peak |
| Max input voltage: | 48v |
| Size: | 2.7 x 3.0 x 1.2 in., 70 x 69 x 31 mm |
| Protection: | Opto-Isolated Inputs , Short Circuit and Over Temperature protection with fault output |
| Clock/Step rate: | Up to 10 MHz |
| Chopper frequency: | 20khz |
| Step size: | 14 Selectable Resolutions down to 1/256th of a step (51200 steps per rev!!) |
| Current limit: | Set by external resister |
| Control: | Via a step pin and direction pin making the drives compatible with hobby CNC applications such as Mach2, TurboCNC and others. |