Hobby-Lofty

Adria, I would make or buy a 56 gear for the encoder the same size as the spidle gear, you can drive straight from the spindle gear to the encoder...

Andrea, you need a 1 to 1 ratio spindle to encoder, 56 to 80 to 56, fit a pulley to the side of 56 and a pulley to encoder both...

try copy and paste into your browser. https://youtu.be/ONOhrxajeRc

Andrea, I used these from RS Components Aluminium Timing Belt Pulley, 6mm Belt Width x 2.5mm Pitch, 60 Tooth, Maximum Bore Dia. 35mm Stock no.:744-558 Qty:2 -- | -- Timing...

yes form RS Components website directly, you may find similar at less cost on the web. Lofty

Andrea, I seen all of Jame's videos, his gear ratio still ended up as 1:1 from spindle to encoder, , with the belt driven version you have 1:1 for the...

Andrea, keep it simple. Merry Xmas Lofty

Ofer, I would leave the code as: // Stepper driver configuration #define STEPPER_MICROSTEPS 8 #define STEPPER_RESOLUTION 200 and set the dip switches on your DM542T driver to 1600, off off...

try setting your driver to 800, this should double the speed of the stepper motor.

try setting your driver to 3200, this should half the speed of the stepper motor.