HY-DIV268N-5A Stepper driver with Oriental Motor PK244PB (and PK296-03A) Stepper

I’ve been playing with a PK244PB stepper (picked up for about 3USD woohoo) and HY-DIV268N-5A Stepper driver. Hopefully these will be used for a CNC project later. The pictures below document the basic configuration. The interface board supplied use old school parallel (WTF?) In order to test things out I needed to ground pin 25, and supply a square wave on pin 2. The input on pin 2 gives provides a pulse drive to the system, there’s also a direction pin (pin 14) you can stick 5V in there to get the motor to rotate in the other direction.

step1

step2

step3

I’ve also used this driver with the PK296-03A stepper (which is a beast!):

pk296-03A

PK296-03A2

This is the original ebay page for the driver: driver_info.html.maff

Original Specifications

From the above ebay page:

Electrical Specifications of Breakout board
Input Voltage 5V DC via power adapter or directly get power from PC via USB port
Drive type Pulse + Direction + Enable Signal Control
Suitable Microstep Driver 2 Phase, 3 Phase, 4 Phase Microstep Driver (M542/M542H/MA860H/3MA2290 etc.)
Net weight Approx 80g/300g
Dimensions 90 * 82 * 15mm (L*W*H)
Electrical Specifications Of TB6600HG Stepper Driver
Input Voltage 12V ~ 45V(Peak) DC
Output Current 0.2A ~ 5.0A (Peak)
Drive Type Pulse + Direction + Enable Signal Control (Single-Chip PWM Bipolar Sine Chopper)
Suitable Motor Nema17, Nema23, Nema24, Small-sized Nema34 (Rated current: 0.2A-5.0A)
Net Weight 250g
Dimensions 105*85*35mm
Operationg Environment & Other Specifications Of TB6600HG Stepper Driver
Cooling Natural Cooling or Fan Forced cooling
Operating Environment
Environment Avoid dust, oil fog, corrosive gas
Ambient Temperature 0 °C ~ 50°C (32°F ~ 122°F)
Humidity 40%RH ~ 90%RH
Operating Temperature 70°C (158°F) Max
Storage Temperature -20 °C ~ 65°C (-4°F ~ 149°F)
Total Weight Approx. 300g

DIP Settings from ebay page

Output Current SW1 SW2 SW3
0.2A ON ON ON
0.6A OFF ON ON
1.2A ON OFF ON
1.8A OFF OFF ON
2.5A ON ON OFF
3.3A OFF ON OFF
4.2A ON OFF OFF
5.0A OFF OFF OFF
Microstep Mode SW4 SW5 SW6
N/A ON ON ON
1(Full Step) OFF ON ON
2 ON OFF ON
2 OFF OFF ON
4 ON ON OFF
8 OFF ON OFF
16 ON OFF OFF
N/A OFF OFF OFF