just curious what number of steps everyone is using these days.

william_foster1 · February 5, 2015, 9:24pm

paul_wallich · February 5, 2015, 9:41pm

Some of each, with various levels of microstepping?

John_Driggers · February 5, 2015, 10:44pm

200 step, but really because I’ve tried 400 step and can see no visible difference in print quality…

paul_wallich · February 5, 2015, 10:59pm

I’ve used a 400 step motor for an extruder to help mitigate the torque falloff of microstepping, but really a better design was preferable.

Michael_Scholtz · February 5, 2015, 11:33pm

Either is fine. I usually put a closed loop belt an some pulleys for gearing to increase torque for the y axiz that carries the x motor

Karl_Loeffler · February 6, 2015, 1:44am

i’d consider 400 steps if I was using 10mm Threaded Rod for my Z-Axis on my i3. At 1.5mm/rev on the thread count it may be tougher to precisely control the platform height. Not sure, but when I was doing industrial motion control we preferred higher counts for precision when dealing with coarse resolution hardware. Oh…and Opinions will differ across the board.

Jeff_DeMaagd · February 6, 2015, 4:15am

I’ve done both. The moire effect is smaller with 400 step motors.

Michael_Scholtz · February 6, 2015, 5:31am

You can still microstep

Jeff_DeMaagd · February 6, 2015, 5:33am

I’ve been doing 1/16 microsteps. They don’t eliminate the step detents.

ED_ATTENBOROUGH_ATTE · February 9, 2015, 10:20pm

with the right controller you can do any step size