Camtronics/Gecko troubleshooting

I've built up a controller from Camtronics with Gecko 320 drivers,
and servo motors. I'm trying to get it running. Or at least get one
axis running. I was trying Mach1 and thought I had a problem with
the program so I started a big thread on the Master5 group. That
seems OT there so I'm here now. I've seen some familiar names on
both boards so I hope that those that were there might follow it
here. Thanks.

There is a jumper between term 5 and term 7, enc- to enc-, enc+ to
enc+,
phase a to phase a and phase b to phase b. Power and ground are also
hooked up. I removed everything else, including the 5v from the
computer, arm- and arm+. I power on, the fault light comes on and
goes off after a sec or 2 as it should, motor does nothing. I
haven't taken the cover off the driver to measure voltage across the
test points, maybe I should. At any rate it seems that if things
(encoder?) are working right I should be able to turn the motor
shaft (arm- and arm+ are not hooked up) and get the fault light to
come back on because the voltage is supposed to drop or increase by
0.04 volts for each encoder count and it eventually faults out when
the voltage goes above 9.6 or below 0.4. It's a 4.6 volt increase or
decrease from the 5v it's suppose to start at. It changes 0.04v per
count and the encoder is supposed to be a 250 cpr so one revolution
of the shaft should cause it to fault out. I've turned the shaft
several turns in one direction and nothing happens.

Lets assume that I've taken the cover off (I will after I clean off
all the heat sink goop) and I'm measuring this voltage and it's not
dropping or increasing. What would I need to do? Is there something
wrong with the encoder? The gecko instructions don't say anything
about how to troubleshoot the encoder or anything about what would
be happening if this voltage isn't doing anything. I do have 5v
across enc- and enc+.

Here is something else: When I first jumped term 5 and 7 I still had
arm+, arm-, and the 5v from the computer hooked up, I have removed
the Eng/Diseng switch. When I powered on the Fault light would light
for a couple sec, go out and the motor would start up.

TIA,
Monte