A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier, Black Edition

A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier, Black Edition

This is a carrier board for Allegro's A4988 DMOS Driver with translator and overcurrent protection. This stepper motor driver allows you to control one stepper motor with up to 2A output per coil. The Black Edition offers adjustable current limiting, five different microstep resolutions and it operates from 8V – 35V.

• Simple step and direction control interface
• Five different step resolutions: full-step, half-step, quarter-step, eighth-step, and sixteenth-step
• Adjustable current control lets you set the maximum current output with a potentiometer, which lets you use voltages above your stepper motor’s rated voltage to achieve higher step rates
• Intelligent chopping control that automatically selects the correct current decay mode (fast decay or slow decay)
• Over-temperature thermal shutdown, under-voltage lockout, and crossover-current protection
• Short-to-ground and shorted-load protection
• 4-layer, 2 oz copper PCB for improved heat dissipation
• Exposed solderable ground pad below the driver IC on the bottom of the PCB