I had an old rutex 4 axis system that I gutted out a few years ago. R990 drives, motherboard and relay board.

I have a full size mill with an Anilam control, and running a job that I need an indexer for. Tonight I assembled a single axis sytem with a rotary table that I had. So now I have stand alone indexer.

What I need now is to figure out the simplest way of getting signal and ack IO's to Mach.

When a program an M10 in the Anilam I have a relay that goes to ground. This need to be "wired" into the computer to tell Mach to start the program and then when the servo has completed its move I need Mach to send 5v to the mill so it can resume the program. I'm pretty sure the input and output that I need to accomplish this can just be momentary not continuous.

Can any of the extra step and direction outputs be used since I'm only using one axis? or relay IO's (4 also) that are on the motherboard be reprogrammed or setting changed in Mach to accomplish this.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks