Well the three year break must have been just what the mill needed because I got the servos working with the smarterm. The issues/questions I have now is the spindle control. I have five wires going to the spindle control/driver thinggy. Two wires are I believe 0-10v enable. The other three are direction control I think..... So to use Mach/galil to control the spindle I thought I could use my fourth axis control??? But the spindle has no encoder or feedback to the card so will Mach/galil be ok with no feedback on W but still control the spindle???
Second issue/question. The old westamp A651 is velocity controlled, I also have single ended encoders, I've heard this is unstable possibly unsafe. Should I look into new servo drives? If so what drives?
Third issue. The limit switches. I think I will have to run the limit switch in parallel with the servo drivers and Mach. Or I could just run the limit switches to Mach/galil and let the the servo enable feature turn off the drivers when the limits have been tripped? Would that be ok?