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    nema 14 stepper with TB6560 - voltage?

    **edit**
    ok - i was out of this too long and mixed up current and voltage..
    now - if the voltage stays the same throughout the board (eg 24v) - i thought the motor can always only take the amps (= current, right?) that it needs/wants - so how can a jumper on the tb6560 set this to 50%? (how the board knows what the motor wants?)
    If so - the motor is rated with 2.7v and an inductance of 4.3 mH per coil - this nice formula (32 * sqrt(4.3)) gives me 66 volts? can this be right?
    Still the question remains - is the setup ok with 50% current (how does this work?) and 24v from the power supply? why it gets so very hot?
    **edit**

    hi
    i have a TB6560 - and after implementing some of the tweaks - it runs fine for now.
    i have 3 nema 23 steppers, which ran also fine with it, but now i got smaller nema 14 steppers (they are really tiny) and now my question is the voltage - i can throttle the power supply down to 24v, and set the current jumpers to 50%, where i should end up with 12v - right?

    now the nema 14 steppers are rated 2,7v - and as far as i understood, i can go up to 10x the rated current, which would then be some 30v?

    still the motors get too hot to touch after some minutes (with 12v - as far as i can trust the tb6560 jumpers).
    (with 25% they are fine, but too weak)

    my question is - am i missing something (ohm etc?), is my setup ok - or should i get a small fire extinguisher?

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    The motor voltage is unimportant. What matters is the rated current.

    The max coil current is set using the resistors on pins 11 and 14.

    current = .5/R

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