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driving 2 motors on Y axis on ramps 1.3

Posted by robtbldr

robtbldr

driving 2 motors on Y axis on ramps 1.3
July 27, 2011 11:55PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 26

Hi. Am new here but lurking for a long time. I just wanted to know if it was possible to run 2 motors on the y axis instead of the z axis without too much of a problem. I'm running ramps 1.3. Thanks for the input.

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raldrich

Re: driving 2 motors on Y axis on ramps 1.3
July 28, 2011 06:47PM

Registered: 12 years ago
Posts: 179

The only difference between the Y and Z axis on Ramps 1.3 is that the Z axis has 2 motor connectors wired in parallel. You'll have to assemble a splitter, but other than that, running 2 motors on the Y axis would work just fine.

You also could just edit Pins.h, and swap the Y and Z axis pins around.