What is a Bo Motor And Stepper Motor

Padara
3 min readSep 20, 2022

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Bo Motor:

Bo motor (Battery Operated) is a lightweight DC geared motor that produces high torque and rpm at low voltages. A bo motor with varying rated speeds is available here. When powered by a single Li-Ion cell, this motor can reach speeds of around 200 rpm. Excellent for battery-powered lightweight robots. This Bo Motor can be interfaced to a motor wheel and chassis, which is perfect to make a DIY mobile robot car.

Application of Bo motor:

The BO Motor is used in Science Projects, Robotics, Arduino programming, Project Design, Internet of Things (IoT), Science Exhibition, do it yourself (DIY), Embedded Systems, Training, Experiments, Robot Making, Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL Lab), Engineering Projects, Diploma Projects, Science Models, Raspberry Pi, and AR-VR applications.

Stepper Motors:

A brushless DC electric motor that divides a full rotation into several equal steps is known as a stepper motor. It is also known as a step motor or stepping motor. If the motor is correctly sized for the application in terms of torque and speed, the motor’s position can be commanded to move and hold at one of these steps without the use of a position sensor for feedback. The following are some examples of the stepper motor: -

· 12V Valve DC Gear Stepper Motor

· NEMA17 Stepper Motor

· 5V DC Stepper Motor

12V Valve DC Gear Stepper Motor:

The 12V DC Stepper Motor is a low-cost, high-quality geared step motor. The Stepper Motor is a widely used combination of stepper motors that provides system stability and reliability.

NEMA17 Stepper Motor:

A NEMA 17 stepper motor is a faceplate-mounted stepper motor. The NEMA 17 is larger and heavier than a NEMA 14, but this also means it has more room to put a higher torque. However, its size does not indicate its power. The NEMA17 stepper uses a Dupont connector cable for connecting the motor to its applications.

5V DC Stepper Motor:

The 5V DC Stepper Motor is a low-cost, high-quality geared step motor. Because of the system’s stability and reliability, the Stepper Motor and ULN2003 Stepper Motor Driver is a widely used combination of stepper motor and stepper driver. With a reduction ratio of 64:1, the motor provides adequate torque for its size at speeds of about 15 RPM. It is a five-wire unipolar stepper motor.

Applications of Stepper Motor:

Floppy disc drives, flatbed scanners, computer printers, plotters, slot machines, image scanners, compact disc drives, intelligent lighting, camera lenses, CNC machines, and 3D printers all use stepper motors.

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