Increasing voltage from 5 (or 20) to 24.

How do you go about increasing voltage from a lower voltage to a higher voltage. This will be used to run a 24 volt stepper motor.

-Shawn

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Shawn
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You will need a boost voltage converter- typically, this is an oscillator and inductor, diode and capacitor, and a regulator to smooth it out. Switchmode power supplies can do this. But be aware that if you boost 5 volts to 24 volts, whatever current your motor draws will also be multiplied by about 5 times plus losses. What that means is if your motor draws an amp at 24 volts, the switching supply will draw about 5 amps at 5 volts.

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Sir Charles W. Shults III

That will do. I suspect 12V would probably be enough to step the motor (at reduced torque etc).

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CWatters

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