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# A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier

**Brand:** Pololu

**URL:** https://littlebirdelectronics.com.au/products/a4988-stepper-motor-driver-carrier

## Pricing

- **Price:** $9.76
- **Stock:** Out of stock
- **Local warehouse:** 0 units
- **Supplier (Pololu):** 0 units
- **SKU:** PL-1182

## Description

A breakout board for the Allegro A4988 DMOS microstepping stepper motor driver with translator and overcurrent protection. It lets you control one bipolar stepper motor at up to 2 A per coil (with sufficient cooling) using a simple step-and-direction interface. The board ships with all surface-mount components installed. A 1×16-pin breakaway 0.1″ male header is included but not soldered, ready for use with breadboards or 0.1″ connectors. Key Features Simple Control Interface – Step and direction pins for easy microcontroller integration Five Microstep Resolutions – Full, half, quarter, eighth, and sixteenth step Adjustable Current Limiting – Onboard potentiometer sets the maximum output current, allowing voltages above the motor's rated voltage for higher step rates Intelligent Chopping Control – Automatically selects fast or slow current decay mode Built-In Protection – Over-temperature thermal shutdown, under-voltage lockout, crossover-current, short-to-ground, and shorted-load protection Motor Supply – 8–35 V Logic Supply – 3–5.5 V Max Current – 2 A per coil (with heat sink; ~1 A without) Warning: Low-ESR ceramic capacitors on this board make it susceptible to destructive LC voltage spikes with long power leads. Place a large (at least 47 µF) electrolytic capacitor across VMOT and GND close to the board. Warning: Connecting or disconnecting a stepper motor while the driver is powered can destroy the driver. Current Limit Setting The current limit can be set by measuring VREF on the board. The formula is: IMAX = VREF / (8 × RCS) where RCS is 0.068 Ω on boards manufactured from January 2017 (0.050 Ω on earlier boards). For example, for a 1 A current limit with 68 mΩ sense resistors, set VREF to 540 mV. Microstep Resolution MS1 Low, MS2 Low, MS3 Low – Full step MS1 High, MS2 Low, MS3 Low – Half step MS1 Low, MS2 High, MS3 Low – Quarter step MS1 High, MS2 High, MS3 Low – Eighth step MS1 High, MS2 High, MS3 High – Sixteenth step Also Available A4988 Black Edition – four-layer PCB with ~20% better thermal performance Resources A4988 Datasheet (PDF) Pololu A4988 FAQs Package Contents 1× A4988 Stepper Motor Driver Carrier 1× 1×16-pin 0.1″ Male Header (not soldered)

**Product Type:** physical

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