Hey everybody, thank you so much for your replies. I thought NEMA 17 was a brand name... oops. I was actually trying to calculate the optimal motor current for my motor, but to do that, I need to know the maximum current the motor can take. How do I find out? @Obewan: what do you mean by fitting a replacment driver pcb? Did you just buy a new stepper driver and got rid of the old one? I actuallby mitzy - Prusa i3 and variants
Hey thanks for your reply! I actually took the extruder motor off the carriage and found out it does have an imprint. It is labeled as RB Step Motor 17HDC4023-24B, so I am now pretty sure it is a Nema 17 clone (with hopefully the same technical parameters). I'm just going to assume that the other clone parts have similar technical parameters to the original ones. One of my main problems at theby mitzy - Prusa i3 and variants
Hello everybody, I'm new to this forum and - after a lot of googleing around - hope to find some help in here... I bought a cheap china Prusa i3 a couple of months ago on ebay and have already printed a lot of objects with it that came out quite nice. Now I'm facing a couple of problems that I'd like to solve, but I just can't seem to find the right answers by searching around the web. My maiby mitzy - Prusa i3 and variants