Hello,
I have just begun to write an API in python to control the step motor card K8097 and used this link (velleman.eu/images/tmp/K8097_PROTOCOL.txt) as a general guideline.
After all I have some hard problems I am not able to solve:
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sending the comamnds “OUTPUT ON/OFF COMMAND” and “DEMO ON/OFF COMMAND”, change nothing in the “STATUS COMMAND” i get from my the device. They seem to have no effect.
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also “SET TORQUE PER MOTOR COMMAND” and “RESET PER MOTOR COMMAND” seem to have no effect on the Status of the motors. In addition it seems that the bytesize of this command is wrong (PACKETSIZE should be 0b00001001 and not 0b00000101, if I am not wrong …)
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I am only able to move the single motors if I send the “RESET PER MOTOR COMMAND” before the move command. Have you any idea of an Explanation for this behaviour?
I hope you can help me out with some of these questions.
Many thanks in advance.