I've got an HP Paintjet printer on the bench (this is on-topic, it seems
to have been made in 1986 or so). I've figured out most of it (even the
PSU section with a complex custom DIL resistor pack), but I can't
indentify the driver chip for the linefeed motor, which is a 4-input
unipolar stepper motor.
Anyway, the driver chip is marked 1820-4864 (too late for my equivalents
list). It would seem to be a quad power driver chip rather than a stepprr
motor controller, as it takes in 4 bits from one of the microocntroller
ports. The pins, as I've traced them seem to be :
1 Input
2 +5V
3 Output
4 N/C
5 Input
6 +5V
7 Output
8 Ground
9 Clamp
10 Output
11 Input
12 +5V
13 Output
14 Input
15 +5V
16 +5V
It's a normal 16 pin DIL package (no heatsink tabs or anything).
I usspect, without prood, that it's actually 4 separate stages, AND or
NAND functionality, : 1 & 2 -> 3, 5 * 6 -> 7, 12 & 11 -> 10, 15 & 14
-> 13
Does that pinout ring any bells with anyone? It's not any of the chips in
my TI Interface Databook..
-tony
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