Wiring cables for closed loop stepper motors

Hi Everyone,

I am in the process of wiring up my first CNC machine and just spent the day finishing up the wiring from my closed-loop stepper motors to the drive, and was wondering if I had made a big blunder. Since the encoder needs 6 wires for EB-, EB+, EA-, EA+, VCC and GND and the stepper power needs 4 more for A+, A-, B+ and B-, I used a single 10-core shielded cable from the drive to the stepper. Is this ok, or will it cause problems, and should I have used a 4-core and a 6-core cables instead? I don't have much of an electrical background, so I am really unsure about this. Thanks for your help

Gautham

I generally keep signal & power separate (I include the wires for the stepper coils power).