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The general idea is to drive one stepper with a known current, apply a known resistive load to the other motor’s windings, and then plot torque vs speed.
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Now, you probably don’t want to do this in real life, because you want a coupler with a bit of compliance
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This mount will hold a NEMA 17 stepper firmly in place so I can attach things to the shaft
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It looks about the same as before, only now it’s transparent gray…
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After trimming, it looks more like a wiper blade, albeit with Orc Engineering artistic sensibilities:
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This is the point where the horror film audience starts chanting “Don’t open the door! Don’t open the door!”
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A snippet of heatshrink tubing and a blob of hot-melt glue seems in order…
