I will apologize in advanced for the crappy pictures, had to take them with my cellphone and for some reason picture size got reduced to the minimum.
Anyways, so I have this stepper motor I got from an Epson Printer (rx500 stylus photo):
(The numbers on the bottom say starting furthest left: em-483, 3y070, 5b)
I'm not sure what type it is, but some quick experimenting by me revealed that i get the most resistance (turning resistance) from shorting the (assuming the wire with the blue stripe is number 1) number 1 & 3 wires and the 2 & 4 wires. As for the controller, I looked around on the circuit board the motor was attached to
and saw nothing that looked like an obvious H-bridge, but did see a couple of transistors on the backside of the circuit board:
Any ideas as to if the transistors are the controller? and if it is, how would i wire it up?
Anyways, so I have this stepper motor I got from an Epson Printer (rx500 stylus photo):
(The numbers on the bottom say starting furthest left: em-483, 3y070, 5b)
I'm not sure what type it is, but some quick experimenting by me revealed that i get the most resistance (turning resistance) from shorting the (assuming the wire with the blue stripe is number 1) number 1 & 3 wires and the 2 & 4 wires. As for the controller, I looked around on the circuit board the motor was attached to
and saw nothing that looked like an obvious H-bridge, but did see a couple of transistors on the backside of the circuit board:
Any ideas as to if the transistors are the controller? and if it is, how would i wire it up?