Hello,
I have a box of bits and the task of getting it to work. I understanmd the princaples - but that's about it. I've spent the night researching what I have, but as I search for answers in my head I simply bring up new ones.
I'm trying to setup a 2 axis router table. I have the table, servos, drivers, a card and computer.
If someone could help me simply physically get everything linked - correctly I'd be happy as that would be a start.
I have:
Kollomorgen Goldline XT servo x2:
Kollomorgen ServoStar CD drives x2:
Galil DMC-1832 motion card:
and I want to use Mach 3 with the apropriate Galil plug-in.
So my questions are:
1,What cable do I need to connect card to the 2x drives. Eventally I want to add another axis. And where can I get it? There is a cable on the drive plugged into the 'input' but it has be cut... see picture. It's a D-sub type at the card. All servo cables are present.
2,There's cables attached on the power input bus (drives) on L1, L2 (bottom 2 black cables) ... what do these do? How do I power the unit? - is it to do with B+ and C.
I have the servostar .pdf but it simply lables things, and i'm unaware of the definitions.
3, I assume I need a driver for the galil card but am overwhelmed by the amount of downloads on the galil site. I just want to get it installed. Any pointers?
Is this all going to work? I beleave all this equipment to have been used together before although not sure if they were using mach3.
Any other help or pointers at this early stage would be great. Anyone with expirience of the servostarCD drives would be great.