Thanks JH,
This data should help!
I'm retrofitting a Fryer bed-mill which had the identical looking setup. I'm at work now; I think it was an Anilam 1100M. Its slow going and finally this Thanksgiving 4-day weekend I had some time to try and fire it up. I used a Galil DMC-4040 motion control board and a new computer but was hoping to reuse everything else (servos, amps, PS, encoders). The computer, the Galil (motion control board), the software, the limit switches, and the encoders all worked on the first try. The servos didn't "power up" though. Basically I now have a manual mill with DRO. The whole bottom part of your picture looks like my past and current set-up as I didn't change any of that stuff. As near I can tell, the PCB board on the lower left has three relays that “turn on” the power supply (bridge rectifier + big honking capacitor) for the amp boards. I thought one relay would connect the 115VAC power to the bridge rectifier. I tried wiring it direct with a toggle switch (bypassing the relay board) but it still didn’t charge the servos. The other one or both relays must also do something as well. The board has a 24VDC input as well and therefore might have a 24VDC output via relay. It looks like you got yours to work. Did you reuse the power supply, amps and servos? If you did, how did you wire it to “turn on” the servos? I’m brand new to milling and even more new to CNC if that makes any sense. So by ”turn-on” servos I mean …prior to when my mill with Anilam control died when I reset the servos they “locked” the axis’s in their current position, then if they got a move + direction command they moved. I’m still trying to get them to power up and thus lock the axis handles from movement. The move + direction part I think I got wired up correctly. I’m grateful for the help that you already gave me and when I get home and sit down with it and the components it may solve my problem. You are probably very busy, but if you can spare any more time I’d really appreciate your knowledge or any suggestions that you have.
Thanks again.
Chris