Well, I have bad news and good news about the new mill. It arrived last week and I've been spending all my time disassembling it to get it into my basement and then reassembling it down there.
The bad news is that the trucking company managed to bang my little z axis motor and ruined it, the output shaft is now at a 45 degree angle. However that was the worst of it and nothing else was hurt.
The good news is much, much, better.
The system arrived with 2 extra servo motors. A U20030HA and a U2003OH, both seem to work perfectly. It also came with a complete and functional Omron PLC. Motherboard, I/O modules, high speed counter, and hand held programmers. But best of all, inside the electrical cabinet I found 3 Omron servo drives, 2 R88D-UPO8HA's and a single R88D-UPO2HA. These are the digital input servo drives that I was needing and lo and behold there they are laying in the cabinet. I haven't wired them up to check them out yet, but everything else on it has worked so far.
My question is now: Do I need a breakout board to interface these drives with my PC running Mach3, or can one wire them up directly with the proper schematic? If it's the latter where would one find the proper schematic?
Also all the axes are directly coupled, there is no gear reduction at all. Is this going to be a problem?
I've attached a few photographs so you can see what I'm dealing with.