Hi everyone I used an ohm meter and a little trial and error and figured it out so please ignore Jon In a message dated 9/17/99 3:27:05 PM US Mountain Standard Time, Phxsys3 writes: << Hi I just started to get my circuit ready for my first stepper motor project. It is a small 6 wire stepper. I have two styles of steppers the colors are (blue,brn,red,wt,brn,orange) and the other (yellow,brn,blk,red,brn,orange). I bought them surplus from All Electronics. How do I determine which wires are common power and which wires go to coil 1,2,3,4 respectively? Thanks Jon ----------------- Return-path: Phxsys3@aol.com From: Phxsys3@aol.com Full-name: Phxsys3 Message-ID: <8e081635.25141a39@aol.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 18:27:05 EDT Subject: Help! 6 wire Stepper motor wire hookup- different colors To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu, stamps@parallaxinc.com, PHXSYS@aol.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="part2_8bd1050b.25141a39_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 Hi I just started to get my circuit ready for my first stepper motor project. It is a small 6 wire stepper. I have two styles of steppers the colors are (blue,brn,red,wt,brn,orange) and the other (yellow,brn,blk,red,brn,orange). I bought them surplus from All Electronics. How do I determine which wires are common power and which wires go to coil 1,2,3,4 respectively? Thanks Jon Return-path: Phxsys3@aol.com From: Phxsys3@aol.com Full-name: Phxsys3 Message-ID: <57b9f16b.2513e341@aol.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 14:32:33 EDT Subject: Help! 6 wire Stepper motor wire hookup- different colors To: PICLIST@mitvma.mit.edu, stamps@parallaxinc.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 Hi I just started to get my circuit ready for my first stepper motor project. It is a small 6 wire stepper. I have two styles of steppers the colors are (blue,brn,red,wt,brn,orange) and the other (yellow,brn,blk,red,brn,orange). I bought them surplus from All Electronics. How do I determine which wires are common power and which wires go to coil 1,2,3,4 respectively? Thanks Jon