Our manufacturing lab at school was gifted an almost brand new Charter Oaks Automation 4 axis milling machine. We received the machine without a computer to run it and I have been tasked with getting the mill up and going. Naturally I would contact the manufacturer, they are however, no longer in business and I'm out to dry. I have a computer to run the machine with and mach4 hobby downloaded. The machine has the following components:

Teknic ClearPath servo motors with 6400 PPR
PMDX 126(revision c)
ESS
Leeson C90T34FZ16A 3HP 3PH
Danfoss VLT Micro Drive


I have almost no experience with any mach software or machine configuration and would greatly appreciate any help I can get. The machine will be wired by next week and we are hoping to begin configuration at that time. Does anyone have any data that may relate to this situation to help ease the configuration process?

What can I do to prevent causing any damage to the machine when testing my configuration?

Thanks again,
Jack