The J3 connectors supply low voltage to the drives from the small power supply to the right of the drives.

YELLOW = +15

GREEN = common

BROWN = -15v

The plug on top of the each drive has two shielded cables going to it. One is the tachometer signal from the motor and the other is the reference signal from the CNC.

The drives were not wired with an enable signal. The high voltage power supply for the drives was turned on and off for that. SERVO RESET turns on the high voltage. E-STOP, OVERTRAVEL LIMITS and OUT. SVO-ON from the CNC will either keep it from enabling or shut it off while enabled.

The OUT. SVO-ON should come from your Pixie's enable now. The charge pump would also be wired here if used.

Darek

The J3 connectors supply low voltage to the drives from the small power supply to the right of the drives.

YELLOW = +15

GREEN = common

BROWN = -15v

The plug on top of the each drive has two shielded cables going to it. One is the tachometer signal from the motor and the other is the reference signal from the CNC.

The drives were not wired with an enable signal. The high voltage power supply for the drives was turned on and off for that. SERVO RESET turns on the high voltage. E-STOP, OVERTRAVEL LIMITS and OUT. SVO-ON from the CNC will either keep it from enabling or shut it off while enabled.

The OUT. SVO-ON should come from your Pixie's enable now. The charge pump would also be wired here if used.

Darek

Darek

Thanks

We should collaborate on the production of an E book.

"Mach to Anilam for Dummies"

You can be the author....................I'll be the dummy.

From the above I understand that what I was hoping the J3 connetor was about is wrong.  Now I'm struggling to figure out where the wires from the Pixies need to connect.  I'll re-read this a couple of hundred times, see if I can get it to sink in.  I'm gonna look for something labeled OUT. SVO-ON.  Then see if I can find someplace to put the Pixie ref+ and ref-.

Appreciate all your help.

Ashby

Edit: I forgot to mention that I am easily confused.
Edit: So I should put ref+,ref- from the Pixie's here?-->>>"the other is the reference signal from the CNC."

  COOL MACHINE,
I LOVE MACH 3 WITH TOUCH SCREEN ON HURCO KM,ARE YOU GOING TO SELL 3-BRUSHED MOTORS THEN?WHAT SERVO DRIVES ARE
YOU GOING TO RUN,I LIKE THE RUTEX FOR THE PRICE THEY SEEM TO BE ONE OF THE MOST PROFESSIONAL.

Just seen where you edited your post. Yes you are correct.

Here is a picture of the original card cage. (X,Y,Z & 4th) are from the encoders. (To Drives) is the +/-10 command signals for X,Y & Z. (Spindle & 4th) same as (To Drives). The top plug on these boards are the I/O.

This is the Pin out for the (To Drives) & (Spindle & 4th Axis) plugs.

1  GND
2  X Ref
3  GND
4  GND
5  Y Ref
6  GND
7  N/C
8  GND
9  Z Ref
10 GND

Hope this helps.

Darek

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.

Here are the two I/O connectors. I showed the OUT. SVO-ON output and how the internal transistor completes the circuit to ground. This output turns on relay K4 on the PCB801 board.  I looked at the Pixie PDF and could not find the current capacity of the ENABLE output, you may need a driver transistor if the Pixie can not sink the relay current. If you tie the error lines of the Pixies together, as suggested in the PDF, a fault on one axis will shut down all the Pixie's. This should allow the use one Pixie ENABLE output for OUT. SVO-ON.

The input SVO OFF (P11-23) can be used as an E-STOP input to mach.

The P4 outputs and finished(IN) are the interface for the PLC.

Did you have M codes for high and low spindle range?

Darek 

Hi Darek
You asked:
>>Did you have M codes for high and low spindle range?<<

No
Edit: On second thought I did have to put M40 in for spindle to work.  If there was another M code, I didn't need it as the spindle would spin from 0 to 6,000.

Ashby

P.S.  Thank you and bless you my son.

I can identify the P11, but can't see or tell which is P4.

Is the spindle motor AC or DC?

Darek

Well I had P11 wrong.  Some dork installed my 803 upside down according to you're nice dwg.  My wiring diagrams don't have such pretty pictures.

The spindle motor is AC, the drive is a Yaskawa Varispeed 626MTIII

Can I adopt you.?

Ashby