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How To Control a Stepper Motor with A4988 Driver and Arduino

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A walkthrough of wiring and driving a stepper motor from an Arduino with an A4988 board, including how to set the driver's current limit.

Watch for: Set the current limit before loading the motor

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This is the tutorial: How To Control a Stepper Motor with A4988 Driver and Arduino.

Gaurav Mall on arduino.stackexchange.com, Apr 2020. CC BY-SA.

This video describes the current limit of the motor around 5:40 minute mark: [video] You should wire it up with known good electrical components and no mechanical load on the motor output shaft to test the basic setup.

SystemTheory on electronics.stackexchange.com, Aug 2020. CC BY-SA.

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