5-phase Stepper Motor Driver (Arduino)

[Mr.Dingle]

Just wondering , has anyone tried building a driver ( or if a pre-made version exists ) for 5-phase (10wire) stepper motors ? 

 

I got these , and id like to use them but , i have no idea of how they should be driven . 

 

From a quick google search , i suppose the way to do this is to build 5 complete H bridges that are controlled by an Arduino , or some other controller ? 

 

Also datasheet of these motors : http://www.zappautomation.co.uk/productattachments/index/download?id=105

[DaveW_NZ]

Hi There

 

I looked at this a while back, you can find some info here.

 

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/projects/designing-my-own-5-phase-bipolar-stepper-driver/

 

http://inter-eng.upm.ro/2012/files/proceedings/papers/paper62.pdf

 

http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/step/types.html#multiphase

 

Regards

Dave