Darek
So, now the X,Y,and Z encoder leads from the above are going to the breakout board & on to the Pixies. The "To Drves" are the leads on top of the drives where I attached the ref +- from the Pixies. Still can't understand where to put the enable and error wires from the Pixie.
You can see in the attached that I mounted a power supply from a PC and the power supply that was on top of the card cage. I also conneted a NO mometary push button to the P7 plug on the 801 board (reset function) and left the original Estop connected. The wiring on the BO board and Pixies is done. Turn on the power to this cabinet and start the PC, all the LED's light up, at this point Estop and reset do nothing. Now I need to get the drives, PLC, and spindle drive powered up.
The servo motors on this sucker are 140v 75amp, Teknix, Rutex, Geko don't go that high. I really need to use these drives.
Some progress and a long way to go.
I downloaded a 102 page PDF manual for the PLC and 150 page PDF for the spindle drive, Servo Dynamics has put the info for the drives in the mail.
If Mach is going to tell X,Y,Z and spindle fwd,rev,speed what to do, do I need the PLC? Seems like all that's left is coolant, I can do that with a little cube relay.
You're my main man Darek, nobody else seem to be as farmiliar with Anilam as you are.