If I’m using a TinyG which has 4 motor control areas, and I have 2 stepper motors on the X axis. There is one motor on each side. Should I connect both motors to the same control area on the TinyG ?
@AMBRO_Manufacturing the X motor goes to motor driver one. This is the side to side action. One Y motor goes to motor driver two, the other to motor driver three. The Z goes to 4. Make sure to power down before changing any stepper motor wires. Do not connect two motors to one stepper driver.
You connect each x motor to its own driver and program the TinyG appropriately. (I did the same thing.)
Is there any reason you can’t plug both x motors into one port? I have done this on my gshield, but it only had 3 ports to begin with.
Don’t know. You’d be asking the one port to supply twice as much power. Why do it.
@Robert_D_Attile not an issue at all. This does work with something like a Gshield there is no real issue if you are under the current requirements for both motors. The TinyG has 4 motor drivers though so easier to just take advantage.