Hi all


So I bought a broken Gerber 408 and am installing a new controller and servo drives, but keeping the original servo motors.

I'm starting this thread both to get assistance and also so that others may benefit from my findings, in case someone wants to do likewise.

My machine has Parvex RX320er1026 servo motors and these are fitted with Renco encoders (P/N 324599-03 D/C 9945). They are 8 wire encoders, and though I was not able to find info about them onlin, someone on a facebook group was kind enough to supply me with a wiring colour chart, below

Its a bit fuzzy but good enough to read




So from that I was able to deduce that the Gerber wiring harness, for the encoders, goes like this -



And this is the type of connector the machine uses. All of the ports on the connectors are numbered (as in the diagram above) which is very useful.




That's as far as I've got so far. I'm using Machdrives BRB servo drives, and a Masso controller.
Next on my list is to read the manuals for both products and figure out how to wire them.


regards,
ned .