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From: hattori@convex.com (Mato Hattori)
Subject: Re: stepper motor question
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In <l68r8aINNl8b@news.bbn.com> koolish@BBN.COM (Richard M. Koolish) writes:

>I have some small Airpax stepper motors, model C82290-M2, obtained
>some time ago from American Science and Surplus.  They are marked
>5 Volt, 6 ohm coil, 7.5 degree.  My question is:  do I really put 5
>volts into the windings and do they then draw 800 ma per winding?
>I would think they would get rather hot with two windings energized
>all the time.

I believe your guess is right.  As you're concerning, that is 
a big defect of stepper motors.
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Mato Hattori
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