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Mike,
I think the G210 will be the best drive for getting the most out of these steppers and was asking Mariss to make the call for me, or make another suggestion. The G210 costs more but should impose no voltage/current limitations on these steppers. (And they are on sale.)
My steppers are currently working ok with the Xylotex 3 axis driver board, which I want to replace with Gecko drives for my second build, which will be a steel frame machine that will be roughly a 4' x 6' overall size. As I mentioned I want to run the steppers in bipolar parallel mode with a higher voltage power supply.
My Xylotex 425 oz/in stepper motors do not have wire colors that match the Xylotex Motor Wiring document. The document I have shows:
XB# = Green-Black (solid color wires)
XB = Green/White-Black/White (colors with white stripe)
XA# = Blue-Red (solid color wires)
XA = Blue/White-Red/White (colors with white stripe)
My motors have the following solid color wires with no stripes:
Yellow
Blue
Brown
Orange
Green
White
Black
Red
Xylotex told me to:
Connect Yellow and Blue together and insulate.
Connect Brown and Orange together and insulate.
A = Green
A# = White
B = Black
B# = Red.
In the document for the Xylotex 3 axis drive board there is a wiring diagram that shows A, A#, B, B# but it shows no corresponding wire color for each. Without that color correlation I can't determine if they told me to wire it parallel or series coils. I can tell by just measuring the coil resistance if it is wired parallel or series. The EMC2 wiki has a procedure to determine with an ohmmeter which color represents which coil lead.
I'll do the measurements today or tomorrow.
CarveOne