Building a coil winder [Part 1] - Introduction 

Hey, long time no see! Welcome back! The next part (Part 3) will come soon! Hopefully, I will get the missing parts next week.

@@CuriousScientist Looking forward to the project. Have an Application in mind for this.

Thanks and you're welcome! Don't forget to check all the videos for this project.

Thanks! Yes, I found the nozzles very convenient as they are readily available. I am constantly looking for parts which are easily available, so anyone will be able to build this machine once I am done and published everything. The other approach will be to use those blunt syringe needles. They also come in different diameters and they can be used to guide and feed the wires in a precise manner.

Thanks! I was just speculating in the video. If for example I want to scale the machine up for thicker wires (welding transformer), I might need a stronger motor. At this moment, I am just experimenting, so I don't know the final result. Each upcoming video will be a newer iteration of the project, so I will discover the "optimal solution" step by step. So far, I will stick to the NEMA17 as I am not planning to wind coils with thick wires now.

Thank you! Yes, once everything is finalized, I will release it.

Just look it up on Google. Nema 17.

@@CuriousScientist Sir I need capacity of motor you used?

My answer is still the same. You can Google it.

You can contact me through my website. There's a contact page on the website.

Hi! I actually finished the coding part, but I haven't yet published it. I will publish it in Part 4 probably after I showed the device working in Part 3.

@@CuriousScientist Ok thanks. I am using two arduino's one for each stepper and one mega with LCD and keypad. I had alot of trouble with keeping constant pulses and timing and I went to nema 23 motors. They work amazing..... with KL5056 drivers. I like your programming of the Accellstepper library and am going to redo all my code and use that library. I coded everythiong without a stepper library and I couldnt really get it working properly. For the wire feeder , I was going to just go back and forth with switches on both ends and it would reverse when it hit a switch. I didnt think about your way which is perfect so I will implement that also. Thanks for your video's.

My coil winder is purely math based. You enter the dimensions of the wire, bobbin and coil and every necessary details for the motors are automatically calculated and performed. You will see how cool it is! Regarding your issue, I suspect one thing. People often do this common mistake: they do something blocking between two steps. For example they put delay in the code or perform something which cannot be performed faster than the time between two steps. This will mess up the pulses for the stepper motor driver because the time between them will not be equal. So, your issue might not be an issue of driving the motor itself, but you might be trying to do something "illegal" between two steps. There is no need for multiple microcontroller. I did the whole stuff with a single unit and it works well.

@@CuriousScientist Yeah I know it is blocking code for sure. But I have a 20X4 LCD and a keypad so I offloaded the stepgens to arduino. On the keypad with LCD, I select the turns, the poickup type that will tell how thick it is and wire size so I will have the arduino send it to the other arduino via IC2 with the accellstepper library. Will see how it goes.

Check this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6zqq79mXjFw.html It is some kind of solution for the above described issue. One microcontroller works only with the motors, and the other works with the rest of the stuff: serial communication, display, switches, you name it....

I don't understand. Please use English if you want to get an answer.

@@CuriousScientist How many mm is the spindle you used?

In this video I am not using any spindles (I guess, you mean the spool for the coil being winded on). In future videos, you can see the details. In fact, the spool diameter is a parameter that you have to enter in order to get the correct winding.

@@CuriousScientist what type of axle you are using in The motor?

Did you watch the videos? I introduced this machine very detailed. It is a 8 mm shaft.

What do you mean by micro?

@@CuriousScientist Can you adjust the distance?

Of course.

Just go and find another channel if you don't like what you see. This is a project, under development, therefore there's nothing to share yet which I also clearly said in the video. And now, if you don't mind, I will go and cry in the corner because you didn't press like on my video, because I didn't share something for free...

@@CuriousScientist Thanx for the lightning respose..... Let the response be swift and serious. Even if nothing else is useful....

I suggest you to pick your words more carefully.