Does anyone have the current required for the steppers in the K40?

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Does anyone have the current required for the steppers in the K40?
I was jogging my smoothie conversion around for a little while and noticed a little singing in the LPSU in some positions…
The config sample I got from Ariel is set to 1.5A.
Needless to say, my LPSU power light is now winking at me and needs to be torn apart so I can put some of the smoke back in.

EDIT
I just found the links for the PPS stepper page in the bluebox guide…
http://smoothieware.org/blue-box-guide

(http://www.smoothmotor.com/Standard-Models/Nema-Stepper-Motor.html)
hmm… 0.5A… @Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty you may want to adjust your settings a tad…

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@Jon_Bruno ​ it will depend if you have integrated steppers or not. Mine are not integrated and only smoothieboard has the integrated

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…and MKS Sbase 1.2/1.3

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Standard K40 motors are 1.0 Amp

Set Alpha current and Beta current to 1.0

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http://www.smoothmotor.com/Standard-Models/Nema-Stepper-Motor.html
references the manufacturer site where the specs can be looked up, I can’t get it to work but Stephane’s write up shows them as 0.6 for Alpha and 0.5 for Beta.
That would depend on your particular model motor installed of course.
Fortunately I have one last LPSU spare to try and get it right…

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For the rest that could read this post you need to set up the pot on your stepper driver to 1 amp as suggested above

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@Ariel_Yahni_UniKpty … If you run external drivers.

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@Jon_Bruno ​ drop in also

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Right!

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I just read that typical 24v rail max is 1.0A
0.6 alpha and 0.5 beta sounds more legit for sure.